Ali Radman

Ali Radman (b. 1973, Tehran) is a composer, pianist and conductor. Introduced to music by his father, Mohammad Hassan Radman, he studied music at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran: composition in the school of Alireza Mashayekhi, Iranian repertoire with Majid Kiani, ethnomusicology with Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh, piano with Raphael Minaskanian and conducting with Edo Mičič, Manuchehr Sahbaei and Iradj Sahbaei, graduating first in his class, followed by a master's degree in composition at the Tehran University of Art.

He has taught at the University of Tehran since 1999, headed the music department of the Islamic Azad University in Shiraz from 2009 to 2017, and founded the Pars Contemporary Orchestra in 2011. He has performed as pianist and conductor with the Tehran Music Group and the Iranian Orchestra for New Music, is a member of the Association of Iranian Contemporary Music Composers, and received Iran's First Class Medal of Art in 2013.

His music develops the rhythmic, melodic and timbral elements of Iranian scales and folk music into polyphony, in orchestral, ensemble, solo, electronic and electroacoustic works performed in Europe, America and Asia, among them Masnavi for string quartet, voice and bassoon (Haftcraft Ensemble, Bozar, 2017), In search of lost memory for oud and electronics (TRAIECT II, Hanover, 2018) and Cold Moments of Darrous for flute and electronics (Iranian New Waves, Petrichor Records, 2020). His albums include Katibeh (2009), Fable of Statue Concert (2015), Little Black Fish and The Tale of the Town of Mirrors (2019). On aNoise he appears on Sonorystyka No. 1 with SORMEHDOON.