Jamshied Sharifi
Jamshied Sharifi (October 17, 1960 – August 15, 2025) was an American Tony Award-winning composer, conductor, musician and record producer. Born in Topeka, Kansas to an Iranian father and an American mother, Sharifi was exposed to music at an early age, learning Jazz and Middle Eastern music through his father and European classical and church music through his mother. He began to study classical piano at age five and quickly developed a thirst for musical instruction and a desire to improvise. At age nine he began studying guitar and drums, and at age ten added flute.
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