Fozie Majd was born in Berlin. Attended schools in Tehran and England. After receiving her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Edinburgh, she went to Paris where she studied with Nadia Boulanger on a French government grant. The performance of Tuned to the night (Shabkuk) for string orchestra (1973) at the Shiraz Festival of Arts, commissioned by NIRTV Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Catherine Comet, was reviewed in the Nouvel Observateur, where she was acclaimed as an “Iranian avant-garde” with the task of “elucidating certain structures of the Iranian traditional music in the light of the most recent conquests” (Maurice Fleurt, 1973). Hell is but the sparkle of our futile suffering (1976) for string orchestra, was performed at the tenth Shiraz Festival of Arts by the NIRTV Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Yvo Malec. Between 1972 and 1978, she undertook research and massive recording of the music of the provinces, travelling to remote villages, mainly in Khorasan and Baluchestan. Since 1988, she has devoted her time to composition, writing and teaching.