Jamshied Sharifi
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Raised in Topeka, Kansas to an Iranian father and an American mother, Sharifi absorbed jazz, Middle Eastern, classical and church music before pursuing a humanities degree at MIT and then intensive jazz piano, composition and film-scoring studies at Berklee, where he received the Outstanding Jazz Pianist award in 1983. After directing the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble and teaching at Berklee, he relo…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources