Mahbod Shirvani Website Biography Soheil Zarrinpour (b. 1997) began his musical training at the age of ten, specializing in the piano. He later pursued professional studies at the Tehran University of Art, where he earned a degree in Piano Performance. Beyond his practice as a pianist, Zarrinpour has developed a portfolio as a composer, writing…
Mahbod Shirvani Biography Mahbod Shirvani (Tehran 1997) began music study at the age of 10 by learning to play the Persian instrument Tar. He studied under instrumentalists such as Dariush Talai and Dariush Pirniakan. At 15, he started composition and music theory classes. Karen Keyhani and Arshia Samsaminia are his main composition instructors. Ken Ueno,…
Matthias Bauer Website Biography Matthias Bauer is a double bass player, improviser and composer based in Berlin. He is specialised in contemporary music, performed a large repertoire of solo compositions for double bass and was working with Berlin based new music ensembles. He performed with many internationally renowned musicians of the free improviser scene and…
Yasamin Shahhosseini Biography born in Tehran in November 1992, began her musical journey at an early age, attending Tehran Music School where she started learning the Oud at just 9 years old. She later pursued her education in Persian traditional music at the University of Tehran. Throughout her career, Yasamin has performed extensively both in…
Farzan Salsabili Biography Farzan Salsabili (b. 1998) is an Iranian acoustic/electronic composer and Pianist. He has won several international and national competitions including “International Composer Competiton (New Music Generation)” in Kazakhstan, “XXVIII Concorso 2Agosto” in Italy, The “3rd K’Arts International Composition Competition” in South Korea, The “6th Reza Korourian Electroacoustic Competition Prize” in Iran, “Young…
Anton Iakhontov Biography Patrick K.-H. (aka Anton Iakhontov) – composer, video- and media-artist, navigating through graphical sound, animation, interactive performances, tangible and spatial sound, multivarious collaborations with contemporary dancers and butoh to graphic collage and acousmatic composition. Along with his creations as a director, he is an author of music / video for over 40…
Paul Clift Website Biography Paul Clift (b. 1978 in Melbourne, Australia) is a composer of instrumental and mixed music. Since 2016, he is based in Basel, Switzerland. His music often attempts to make concrete associations with concepts such as collective memory and historical musical traditions, notably through the integration of archival recordings in his works.…
Elnaz Seyedi Website 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…
Mehrdad Gholami Website Biography Iranian flutist, Mehrdad Gholami, received presidential award and Iran’s National Elites Foundation scholarship to continue his training at the University of Tehran, where he studied with Dr. Azin Movahed. During his time in Tehran, Mehrdad won numerous solo and chamber music competitions in Iran such as Fadjr International Music Festival, Iran…
Ashkan Behzadi Website Biography Ashkan Behzadi, a recipient of 2025 Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize and a 2021–2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, is an Iranian-Canadian composer based in New York. He earned his DMA in composition at Columbia University, where he studied with Fred Lerdahl, George Lewis, and Georg Friedrich Haas. Prior to this,…