Dilshad Said


Dilshad Said is a contemporary Kurdish musician.

Biography

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 and received his M.A. degree in 1988. He has been residing in Austria since 1991.
After that he was a diploma-solo-violinist of the Royal Academy of Music, London. He has also studied violin and composition 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 teaches music and violin in Austria and is considered a bridge between classical Kurdish music and Western Classical-Music. He has arranged musical events for many other musicians and singers such as Sivan Perwer.
In 2012 he went on a music tour in Turkey and performed concerts in Istanbul, Izmir, Mersin, Diyarbakir and Ankara. In 2015 he composed a symphony, "Peshmerga", about the massacre of Yazidi people and capture of Sinjar by ISIS, which was performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.

Albums

  1. Kurdish music for Violin, Stran Music, Sweden.

    Research in Law

  2. Dilshad, Said, Das Risiko der Erteilung von Exportgenehmigungen nach den Incoterms, verglichen mit dem BGB, Dis. Jur., Trier, 1993.