Dilshad Said (born 1958), is a prominent Iraqi

Iraq

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 Kurdish

Kurdish people

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 musician and composer, who is considered to be a significant influence on contemporary Kurdish music

Kurdish music

Kurdish music refers to music performed in Kurdish language.Traditionally, there are three types of Kurdish Classical performers - storytellers , minstrels and bards . There was no specific music related to the Kurdish princely courts, and instead, music performed in night gatherings is...

. He was born in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan

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. After graduating from the music institute of Baghdad, he worked as an assistant of the conductor at Baghdad television and radio orchestra. In 1984, he continued his studies in music at the University of Wales

University of Wales

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 and received his M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 degree in 1988. After that he was a diploma-solo-violinist of the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

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, London. He has also studied violin

Violin

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 and composition

Musical composition

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 in Eastern Europe. So far, he has worked together with many popular Kurdish musicians. His first CD is titled Variations on Kurdish Melodies for Violin.
Dilshad Said now teaches music & violin in Austria and is considered a bridge between classical Kurdish music and Western Classical-Music. Dilshad now resides in Austria

Austria

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 and has arranged musical events for many other musicians and singers such as Sivan Perwer

Sivan Perwer

Şivan Perwer is a Kurdish poet, writer, musical teacher, singer, and performer on the tembûr . Şivan currently lives in exile after fleeing Turkey in 1976 because of his music...

.

Research in Music

1. Dilshad, Said, Das Risiko der Erteilung von Exportgenehmigungen nach den Incoterms, verglichen mit dem BGB, Dis. Jur., Trier, 1993.http://www.efa-schriften.de/pdfs/Tervooren.pdf