Peyman Yazdanian | zh

Peyman Yazdanian was born in 1969 in Tehran. He started learning the piano at the age of 6 and continued with his master Farman Behbud up to the advanced level. At the age of 12, he started taking harmony and composition lessons from Plus Khofri. He has taken part in a few master classes of Austrian professor Gerhard Gretchleger from the conservatory of Vienna and Professor Ernest Hozel from the conservatory of Graz and he has also taken an advanced stage course in Marseille with Professor Ginette Gaubert. He has taken a few Conducting lessons with Iradj Sahbai (The conductor of Strazburg-Shiltigheim Orchstra). He has had many concerts both as a soloist and an accompanist.

Taking part in the international piano competition, Concour Musical de France (CMF) held in 2000, he won the first prize and afterwards he had a recital in the French University, Ecole National Superior de Telecommunication (E.N.S.T). A year before he had won the second prize in the same competition (CMF). As a composer, he has written more than fifty pieces for piano; few Duo pieces for piano and cello; a duo for piano and violin; a trio for piano, flute and cello; a quartet for 4 flutes; a quartet for woodwinds; 2 suites for strings ensembles; a short piece for symphonic orchestra and several strings quartets. Many of them have been performed in Iran, France, Germany and Italy.
He has composed for a number of featured films like “The Wind Will Carry Us” by Abbas Kiarostami, “The Strangers” by Ramin Bahrani, “The Water and the Fire” by Fereydoun Jayrani, “We Pass By Each other” by Iraj Karimi, “The deserted Station” by Alireza Raisian, “The little birdboy” by Rahbar Ghanbari, “And along came a spider” by Maziar Bahari, “The White Nights” by Farzad Motamen,“The Wind Carpet” & “Sometimes look at the sky” & “A Piece of Bread” by Kamal Tabrizi, “The Fatherhood Vilage” by Rasoul Mollagholipour, “The Tradition of Lover Killing” & “A Place in Far Distance” by Khosro Masumi, “The Soldiers of Friday” by Masood Kimiai, “The Picture of A Lady From Far away” by Ali Mosaffa and “A Night” & “Few days later” by Niki Karimi, “Firework Wednesday” by Asghar Farhadi, “Awards for silence” by Maziar Miri, “Yousef the prophet” (a historical TV series in 45 episodes) by Farajollah Salahshour, “Awards” by Kamal Tabrizi and “Alchemy and Dust” by Abbass Rafeyee.
He has also worked for few foreign featured films like “Buddha Mountain” (2010-China) by Li Yu, “Spring Fever” (2009-China,France) by Lou Ye (won the first prize for the best screenplay in Official selection in Cannes film festival 2009 and the first prize for the best original music in Golden Horse film festival in Taiwan), “Lost in Beijing” (2007-China) by Li Yu, “Summer Palace” (2006-China, France) by Lou Ye (Official selection In the Competition, Cannes film film festival 2006), “Full Metal Village” (2006-Germany) by Sung-Hyung Cho, “La Fine del Mare” (2005-Germany, France) by Nora Hoppe, “Man Push Cart” (2005-USA), “Forbidden Chapter” (2004-Italy, France), .


All of his 5 Cds has been released by Hermes Records in Tehran with the names: “Themes” (2002), "Second Take" (2004), "Crossing" (2007) , "On The Wind" (2008) and "Suites" (2010).


He won The First prize of the 5th Olympia film festival (December 2002) in Greece for the best Original Sound Track of the film “The little birdboy”(Dir:Rahbar Ghanbari) and The 47th Golden Horse (December 2010) in Taiwan for the best Original Music of the film “Buddha Mountain”(Dir: Li Yu).

He got his bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering from Sharif Industrial University of Tehran and now he works as a pianist, composer and piano teacher.

Yazdanian adores performing pieces by Sergei Rachmaninov.


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