Mani Mazinani Website Biography Mani Mazinani (b.1984, Tehran) is a Toronto-based artist making installation, video, film, sculpture, photographs, multiples, sound and music. His practice evolved from an early interest in sound recording, now working with the process of translating thoughts into recordings. His visual work thinks about scale and perception, often combining subject matter and…
Aso Kohzadi Website Biography Born in Tehran in 1982. She is a composer and violinist. Aso holds a bachelor of music degree from Soureh University of Tehran and a master of music in composition from University of Art, Tehran. She graduated with a master’s degree in electronic music (Sonology) from Royal Conservatory of The Hague,…
Bahar Royaee Biography Bahar Royaee (Tehran, 1984) born and raised in Iran. She is a concert and incidental music composer. Her musical ideas are visual based and connected to absurdity of life and humanity; while she is working on the perception of sonic events in different times. Bahar who has a diploma of Electrical Engineering…
Soheil Shirangi Website Biography Soheil Shirangi is a composer, director, and music educator with over 14 years of experience in teaching and creating music. Graduate Assistant at San Francisco State University, currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Music Composition, he is an active member of the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA). Soheil’s career spans…
Hooman Rafraf Biography Hooman Rafraf (Tehran, 1985) received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and Master’s degree in Music Composition from University of Tehran and is currently a Ph.D. student of Music Composition in the University of Florida. Hooman’s compositional output includes works for orchestra, electronics, chamber music, soloists, and collective projects with arts museums…
Mohammad Amin Sharifi Website Biography Mohammad Amin Sharifi (Tehran, 1993) studied Composition at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and currently holds a PhD fellowship in Composition at Duke University in the United States. Sharifi’s works have been performed by such new-music groups as JACK Quartet, Hypercube, Ensemble Paramirabo, A&C String Quartet, Imani Winds, S.E.M.,…
Maryam Sirvan Biography Maryam Sirvan (Roudsar, 1986) is graduated from Gilan University with a degree in law and is a singer and a flute player. Maryam started her electronic music experiments in Rasht, 2010. She and Milad Bagheri founded the music group “Nam” which is an experimental electronic music group. Their group’s music is a…
Milad Bagheri Biography Milad Bagheri (Bandar-e Anzali, 1984) is graduated from Gilan University with a bachelor of science in Electronic engineering. He and Maryam Sirvan founded the music group “Nam” which is an experimental electronic music group. Their group’s music is a combination of human’s voice, ambience sounds and electronic sounds and an exposition of…
Ehsan Banitaba Website Biography Ehsan Bani Taba is an independent, interdisciplinary artist residing in Tehran, Iran, who works as a composer, sound artist, and music producer who has been working in the field of architecture and research in various areas of cognitive sciences, psychology, and philosophy in addition to producing musical projects in relatively long…
Arash Asadi Khomami Biography Arash Assadi Khomami (Rasht, 1994) started music by learning Piano when he was six years old but after three years he took a interest in learning Setar (Iranian traditional instrument). The desire of becoming a composer in his early seventeen motivated him to learn classical music composition. To him, the charm…