Various Artists – This Is Tehran?

Kasra Faridi was born 1992 in Tehran. At age 4, he started to play piano and performed his first classical solo piece at age 6. He won the 1st price

Born in 1991, Tehran, Siavash Molaeian has been playing Kamancheh as his main instrument since he was 14 . Based on his interest in songwriting and improvisation, he started the

Mina Momeni is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer from Tehran. She has collaborated with Kronos Quartet and David Coulter in the past. The melancholic track “Divar” she wrote for a

Rojin Sharafi was born and raised in Tehran, is now a Vienna-based emerging sound artist and composer of acoustic, electroacoustic and electronic music. “Naked City” is a distorted reflection on

Young singer and pianist Parastoo Ahmadi from Tehran rearranged a traditional 16th-century piece from Shiraz, central Iran, into a modern, jazzy track with a haunting chorus. Releases on 30M Records

Ata Ebtekar aka Sote is a Hamburg-born Iranian-American electronic composer and sound artist. He teaches electronic music production in Tehran to aspiring musicians, co-founded the ambitious SET festival in the

Pedram Babaiee is a Tehran-based composer and producer of contemporary classical music who sees himself as a carrier of Iranian musical heritage in his generation of contemporary composers. For the

The Otagh Band from Tehran is multi-genre artist collective and the brainchild of Bamdad Afshar. The band is known for spectacular stage performances involving artistic theater-play elements and eliminates regularly

Ehsan Abdipour is the most famous Iranian player of the sorna flute. The sorna was used 2,500 years ago in Achaemenid Iran to play at the end of the day

Saba Alizadeh is an Iranian composer, musician and reputated virtuoso of the Kamancheh (Iranian spike fiddle). Influenced by Iranian harmonics, musique concrète and sophisticated, forward-looking beat science, Saba Alizadeh’s “I

Bamdad Afshar (born in 1986, Tehran) is a real multi-talent: music composer, sound designer, art director, record producer, and film score composer. He graduated with an MFA in music and

Hooshyar Khayam (born 1978, Bedford) is an Iranian-British musician. He is active as a composer, pianist, teacher and producer. He specialises in contemporary classical, fusion/world music, and in music for