Ramin, born in Iran, started studying the setār (an Iranian classical music instrument) at the age of 14. He completed his Bachelor’s in Iranian Music Performance at the Tehran University of Art, and his Master’s in Music Composition at the University of Tehran. In the first and the second year of his PhD in composition at the University of Iowa, he worked with Josh Levine and Sivan Cohen Elias. He’s currently working with David Gompper in his third year. Ramin’s pieces have been performed in New Music On the Point festival, MCS (Midwest Composition Symposium), EMCC Festival of New Music (Exchange of Midwest Collegiate Composers) and by the JACK Quartet and UI Kantorei. Also, two of his papers on Hossein Alizadeh’s Neynavâ and Elliott Carter’s Dialogues have been published in Persian journals.

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