Resume

Current

  • Independent researcher / Freelance composer
  • Member of SpectroDuo ensemble for electro-acoustic improvised music (since 2014)
  • Co-founder and Artistic Manager of Spectro Center for New Music (Since 2013)

Education

  • 2019 – 2023
    PhD in Artistic Research, the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo
    thesis title: “Holographic Composition Technique: revisiting the Medieval Treatises on Iranian Music.”
  • 2010 – 2012
    Master of Arts – composition, Yerevan State Conservatory, Armenia
  • 2005 – 2010
    Bachelor of Arts – composition, Yerevan State Conservatory, Armenia
  • 2000 – 2003
    Bachelor of Arts – classical guitar (unfinished), Tehran Conservatoire, Iran

Residencies

  • New Opera Days Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2016
  • Ostrava Days 2015, Czech Republic, 2015
  • 4020 Linz Festival, Austria, 2015
  • VICC | Visby International Centre for Composers, Sweden 2014
  • LUCA – campus Lemmensinstituut, LEUVEN, Belgium 2014
  • Ostrava Days 2013, Czech Republic, 2013
  • 4020 Linz Festival, Austria, 2013
  • Convergence days in Georgia, 2011

Other activities

  • Jury member for the biennial PRIX CIME – International Electroacoustic Music Competition 2019 & 2023.
  • Jury member for the MATA Festival (New York) in 2016
  • Co-founder, Artistic Manager and curator at Tehran Contemporary Music Festival (2016-2020)
  • Co-founder, Artistic Manager and senior curator at Contemporary Music Circle at TMOCA (Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art) in (2015-2020)
  • Founding member of the Composition and Music Theory Department at the Music Department of the University of Applied Science and Technology in Tehran, Iran. (founded in 2011)