She began her music career with playing Daf and singing Iranian Traditional Music in different ensembles at the age of thirteen. She started classical singing under Mehdi Shams Niknam and has pursued her education so far, working with other professors abroad like Norma Kikat, Angela Postweiler , Laura Aikin By this time, there are three…
Born on Feb 1, 1989, in Tehran, Soraya Sharifi completed her studies in IT engineering at Azad University of Parand. She began learning music with the guitar under the supervision of Diba Golzar. At the age of 25 She subsequently pursued her professional path under the supervision of Mohammad Zeinali. When she was 19, she…
He was born in Kerman in 1997 and is an undergraduate piano student at University of Tehran who has been playing the piano since 2009 and started composing music in 2017. RKC 2021 His piece, Post (The Thin White Line for Four Channels), was one of the selected pieces in the 6th RKC in 2021.…
He was born in Tehran in 1996 and is studying for a Bachelor’s degree in Painting at Tehran Faculty Of Fine Arts. His insight into this area, coincided with and influenced by thoughts about time and human mind and the issue of elastic and accidental relativity in it; and these thoughts have been formed after…
Ulrike Brand, born in Germany, was introduced to contemporary cello-playing by Siegfried Palm. At the Music-High-School of Cologne she studied with Peter Eötvös, Mauricio Kagel and the Amadeus String-Quartet. Since 1985 she has partecipated as a soloist in the major festivals of contemporary music in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Greece, Slovacchia, Mexico, Russia and…
Ali Balighi Website Biography Ali Balighi, a composer, sound designer, and sound engineer, was born in Tehran, Iran. He graduated from The University of Art in 2011 with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance. A passion for composition led him to pursue a Master’s degree in Composition at Texas Tech University, where he is currently…
Sepideh Yaftian Biography Sepideh was born in Tehran in 1995 and is studying for a Master’s degree in Entomology at University of Tehran. She has started playing the violin when she was 9 years old under the instruction of Manizheh Reyis-Farshid and Amirteimour Portorab. She studied harmony and composition by Alireza Mashayekhi, after attending the…
Farhad Shirinzadeh was born in Tehran in 1988 and started the acquirement of violin with Reza Aalami and he learnt music composition in the presence of these honorable masters: Reza Mortazavi, Mohammad Reza Tafazzoli and Dr. Amin Honarmand. He is now studying for a Master’s degree in Composition at Tehran University of Art and at…
Soheil Tabatabaei (born 1986 in Tehran) graduated at Tehran Art University with bachelor degree, studied Santour in the class of Alireza Javaheri and Siamak Aghaei. Since 2011 he cooperates with Yarava Music Group as a performer, Executive Director, Scheduling Director and also leader of the Yarava Modern Orchestra. As a soloist and member of an…
She was born in Tehran in 1995 and started learning the piano when she was seventeen, and she was taught to compose music by Mohammadreza Tafazzoli, and Karen Keyhani at Tehran University of Art. She has been involved with electronic music since 2017. Now she is a PhD student at University of North Texas. RKC…