Violinist, conductor, educator and scholar, Iman Khosrowpour’s career is uniquely and richly
diversified. He has given concerts in Japan, Germany, Czech Republic, Canada, Brazil, and
throughout the United States, and has given violin masterclasses in Germany, China, South
Korea, Japan and Paraguay. He made his European debut with the Mendelssohn Violin
Concerto in Brno, Czech Republic and performed Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 at the
world-renowned Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria.

A passionate educator, Iman maintains a successful private teaching studio in his hometown of
Irvine and has taught at Orange County School for the Arts. He is the Strings Coach for
University, Irvine and Northwood High Schools, as well as Rancho San Joaquin Middle School.
His students have been concertmasters and members of regional youth orchestras as well as
winners of international and regional competitions. They have gone on to study at Princeton,
Columbia, Northwestern and Chapman Universities; University of Southern California; University
of California Los Angeles; California State University Long Beach; and Frankfurt University of
Music and Performing Arts, and have performed at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House and
Segerstrom Hall. He is Founder and Artistic Director of Irvine Music Festival, an international
summer program which attracts world-class faculty and guest artists.

From 2012-2021 Iman was the violin and viola instructor as well as conductor of the Symphony
Orchestra at Irvine Valley College (VC), annually leading several concerts a year and often
performing as soloist with the orchestra and the small ensemble he founded, The Ill-Tempered
Chamber Players. In 2021 IVC created the Iman Khosrowpour Orchestra Strings Fellowship in
recognition of his ten years of outstanding service to the institution and community. He has
conducted the Irvine Unified District Honors High School Orchestra, most recently in April 2025,
at the world-renowned Segerstrom Hall, and has adjudicated for numerous high school
orchestra festivals in Irvine and the surrounding areas.

Iman continues to develop his conducting career. Under the auspices of a private research grant
he spent the 2021-2022 season in Berlin, Germany, connecting with major symphony orchestras
in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Zurich and elsewhere, and furthering his understanding of how
music organizations and educational institutions function within their respective societies. He
has conducted the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Sinfonietta and
Leipzig Symphony Orchestra. His conducting mentors are Neeme and Paavo Järvi, Ulrich
Windfuhr and Carl St. Clair.

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In addition to his music accomplishments, Iman earned a Master of Arts degree in East Asian
Studies from Harvard University. He attended the Inter-University Center for Advanced
Japanese Studies in Yokohama, Japan and worked as a translator for the Saito Kinen
Matsumoto Festival led by Seiji Ozawa. Iman received Harvard’s esteemed Joseph Fletcher
Memorial Award for Outstanding Graduation Thesis, writing on the film music of Japanese
composer Toru Takemitsu.

Born in Tehran, Iran and immigrating to the United States as a child, Iman began violin studies
at age of eleven and quickly displayed promise, two years later becoming a student of Erick
Friedman, prized pupil of Jascha Heifetz. He made his concerto debut with the Pacific
Symphony Orchestra at age sixteen. A graduate of the Peabody Institute, Rice University, and
New England Conservatory, he studied violin with Mr. Friedman, William R. Kennedy, Sylvia
Rosenberg, Kathleen Winkler and Masuko Ushioda, and chamber music with members of the
Juilliard, Orion, and Borromeo string quartets.

Iman’s other interests include international film and cuisines, travel and languages. He speaks
Japanese, Farsi, German and Spanish.