Biography
Elnaz Seyedi was born in Tehran in 1982, she studied composition with Alireza Mashayekhi, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Jörg Birkenkötter, Caspar Johannes Walter and Michael Reudenbach in Tehran, Bremen, Essen and Basel. She has received awards and scholarships like Stuttgarter Kompositionspreis in 2025, International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) in Frankfurt am Main in 2018/19, Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Scholarship of the City Cologne and Ensemble Phoenix Basel Competition prize in 2017 and DAAD Scholarship in 2016.
She was Composer in Residence by Bartels Fondation at Atelier zum Markgräflerhof in Basel (2020), in Künstlerhof Schreyahn (2021), in Academy of Arts in Berlin (2022), Artist in Residence in Villa Waldberta in München and in German Study Center in Venice (2025).
Her music has been performed among others at numerous festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, Lucerne Festival, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Venice Art Biennale, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Ultraschall Berlin, Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht, Festival Mixture Barcelona, Zeiträume – Biennale for Contemporary Music and Architecture Basel, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Musica Insieme Panicale Italy and Tehran International Electronic Festival.
Her portrait CD ” a sun of one’s own” was released in 2024 by Edition Zeitgenössische Musik and Wergo. Her works are published by Edition Juliane Klein, Berlin.