Featured Projects

Nazri

Nazri
Iranian Music Festival

Iranian Music Festival
Persian Minimalism

Persian Minimalism
Slightly Off

Slightly Off
Panbe Zan

Panbe Zan
Beautifully Untuned Mind

Beautifully Untuned Mind
Let Me Tune

Let Me Tune
War Is Peace

War Is Peace

Catalogue of Works

    • Nazri (2025)
      Ritual-based interdisciplinary performance for three percussionists, electronics, and movement.

    • UTP: Circular Movement of Knowledge (2023)
      Recorded dialogue with Raghav Handa exploring artistic commonalities between movement and music.

    • Panbe Zan (2022)
      Contemporary Persian opera blending traditional vocal and instrumental idioms with experimental staging and music-theatre form.
      Directed and composed by Shervin Mirzeinali.

    • Loop (2017)
      Open-score conceptual work for any three instruments, combining repetition, structure, and chance.

    • Ideal Hope (2016)
      Text-based conceptual work addressing racism; scored for ensemble and speech; performed in Tbilisi.

    • Pi (2016)
      Aleatoric structure for any four instruments based on the digits of Pi.

    • Local Edition Curatorship (2024)
      Curated and programmed live performances spanning intercultural, multimedia, experimental, and contemporary music.

    • FolkXperimental – Founder & Composer (2024–ongoing)
      A project reimagining 16th-century Iranian melodies and modes, particularly from Rameshgaran Khorasan, researched by Dr. Ameneh Yousefzadeh. It fuses early Iranian folk traditions with experimental music.

    • CozyMinimal – Founder & Artistic Director (2021–ongoing)
      A performance series exploring the intersection of Persian modal repetition and Western minimalism, combining traditional instruments and electronics to create slow-transforming, cyclical soundscapes.

    • Iranian Music Festival – Artistic Director & Co-founder (2023–ongoing)
      Leading programming and artistic direction for Sydney’s Iranian Music Festival, showcasing diverse Iranian and cross-cultural music.

    • CozyStage Inc. – Co-founder & Artistic Lead (2020–ongoing)
      Founded a community music platform supporting workshops, concerts, and original programs such as CozyChoir and CozyMinimal.

    • Beautifully Unturned Mind (2022)
      9 Tars and electronics.

    • Setar Ensemble (2021)
      Multi-tracked setar with electronics.

    • Pluck (2021)
      Solo double bass and fixed media.

    • War Is Peace (2021)
      Flute and electronics; based on Orwell’s 1984.

    • The Gong (2018)
      Electronics with voice samples of Alan Watts.

    • What’s the Point (2018)
      Saxophone slap-tongue and electronics; performed at SIBA Festival, Helsinki.

    • Azan (2018)
      Electronic manipulation of Moazen-Zadeh’s Azan; performed at Musiikkitalo, Helsinki.

    • Aesthetic Error (2018)
      Electronics and two kamanchehs.

    • Double Chaos Bass (2017)
      Electronics and double bass.

    • The Spirit of Welcome (2023)
      Music direction for a refugee ensemble; rearranged traditional music for group performance during Refugee Week.
      Supported by SSI.

    • CozyChoir – CozyStage Inc. (2020–2023)
      Founded and led a community choir focused on Persian classical music; arranged over 30 works for ensemble.
      Performed quarterly at West Ryde Multicultural Centre and Iranian Music Festival.

    • Alphabet Music Project (2021)
      Created 40 rhythm-based educational music videos supporting early phonetic awareness in children.
      Funded by Multicultural NSW.

    • Kalat (2024)
      Music for a full-scale theatre production directed by Hamed Janali, based on Kalat Claimed by Bahram Beyzai.
      Performed at NIDA Theatre.

    • Gharive Madar (2024)
      Live musical performance composed for a solo theatre work by Ali Elhami Manesh, drawing on Shahnameh Khani traditions.
      Supported by SSI.

    • Najva (2023)
      Original score composed for a theatre production directed by Ehsan Aliverdi.
      Performed at West Ryde Community Centre.

    • Slightly Off (2023)
      Chamber Orchestra, Santoor

    • Let Me Tune (2021)
      Dotar, Violin, Viola, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone
      Performed by Post-Radical Doctorate Ensemble, Sydney Conservatorium

    • Dragged Is My Surname (2021)
      Flute, Oboe, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin, Viola, Cello

    • Collective Love (2020)
      String Quartet
      Based on Ahmad Shamlou poetry in four languages

    • Gestures (2020)
      Two Guitars
      Performed at Sydney Conservatorium

    • Tashakimo Kotimati (2019)
      Mixed Ensemble
      Performed by IEMA Ensemble at IMPULS Festival

    • Abalfazl (2019)
      2 Pianos, Trumpet, Cornet, Clarinet

    • Homelessness (2018)
      String Quartet

    • Trial (2017)
      4 Violins
      Based on auditory illusion of continuous ascent

    • Differences (2015)
      Piccolo, Alto Sax, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contrafagott, Vibraphone, Woodblock, String Quartet

    • String Quartet (2014)
      String Quartet

    • Duet for Violin and Piano (2013)
      Violin, Piano

    • Duet for Flute and Clarinet (2012)
      Flute, Clarinet
      Winner of Gyumri International Composition Award, Armenia

    • Persian Wedding (2019)
      Wind Orchestra
      Performed by SCM Wind Orchestra

    • From a Simple Complexity to a Complex Simplicity (2019)
      Symphony Orchestra
      Performed by Sydney Conservatorium Orchestra

    • BenOrchestra (2018)
      Symphony Orchestra

    • Violin Concerto (2015)
      Violin, Symphony Orchestra

    • AZIM (Choir Version) (2016)
      SATB Choir

    • Vocal Cycle (2012)
      Voice, Piano

    • Piano Cycle (2011)
      Solo Piano
      Toccata, Andante, Grave