Artists

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

Composer Aftab Darvishi was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1987, to a musical family. She began playing the violin at the age of five, later switching to classical piano. She

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

A marriage of cultures and a homage to the wonders of being human is reflected in the sound of Esfand like hardly any other contemporary project. What Iranian Rouzbeh Esfand

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

Dariush Gorgvand (Gorg), was born in 1989 in Tehran-Iran. He graduated in ICT from Amol institute of higher education in 2013. Gorg began his career as a documentary and news

Shekiba Bahramian was born 1996 in Shiraz, Iran. Coming from a Qashqaei culture rich in poetry, music and traditional dance, she taught herself dancing from a very young age without

Alireza Jodey was born in Ghazvin, Iran, 1969. After finishing his diploma in architecture in Ghazvin in 1987, he moved to Tehran to finish his B.A. in painting at the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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