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)