Bijan Khadem-Missagh (بیژن خادم میثاق; born 26 October 1948) is an Austrian violinist, composer and conductor of Iranian descent.
He studied first with his father Ata Khadem-Missagh (concertmaster of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra) and then at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with professors Ernst Morawec, Edith Steinbauer, Franz Samohyl, Erwin Ratz, Heinrich Gattermeyer and Hans Swarovsky, graduating with distinction.
In 1979, he founded Allegro Vivo, the international chamber music festival in Horn, where the summer academy also takes place, where young musicians can attend master classes.
Khadem-Missagh remains in tonality, acknowledging the traditions of existing cultures without, however, denying the renewals of the 20th century.
Das Musische als Lebensweise is the title of the book by Bijan Khadem-Missagh, published by Horizonte Verlag in 1998; with an afterword by Frederick Mayer (member of the Club of Rome).
2009: "In Bewegung" Allegro Vivo From 1988 to 2010, Khadem-Missagh was professor at the Joseph Matthias Hauer Conservatory in Wiener Neustadt.
Composers from various countries, including Karl Heinz Füssl, Lasse Thoresen, Alexander Vujic, Kurt Rapf, Karl Etti, Andreas Baksa, Alexander Rahbari, Heinrich Gattermeyer, Ulf-Diether Soyka, Robert Stiegler, Leo Schmetterer, Franz Thürauer and Herbert Zagler, dedicated works to Khadem-Missagh.