Hossein Pishkar has studied conducting with Ruediger Bohn and worked with Bernard Haitink at Lucerne Easter Festival and Riccardo Muti at Muti Italian Opera Academy. Pishkar has won the Ernst von Schuch Prize and First Prize at the German Conductors’ Awards in Cologne. He was included in the promotion of the Dirigenten Forum des Deutschen Musikrates in 2015 and has conducted orchestras like Romanian State Philharmonie Satu Mare, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Guerzenisch Orchestra Cologne and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker.