Bahar Taheri

Bahar Taheri (b. 1990) is an Iranian composer, born and raised in Tehran and now based in Canada. Her work is influenced by visual imagery, theatre, literature, philosophy and psychology, and draws on a broad range of styles and instrumentation. Her musical training began in Tehran with self-taught explorations on the keyboard and the Persian santur, followed by more than a decade of classical piano. She holds a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature from Shahid Beheshti University (Iran, 2013) and one in Music Theory and Composition from Millsaps College (USA, 2020), where she studied composition with Jason Carl Rosenberg. She went on to study for a Master of Music in Composition at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver with Keith Hamel and Dorothy Chang.