Nader Mashayekhi

Nader Mashayekhi (b. 26 November 1958, Tehran) is an Iranian composer and conductor, the son of the actor Jamshid Mashayekhi. He studied composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In the 1990s he was music director of the Viennese new-music ensemble Wien 2001, and from 2006 to 2007 he was conductor of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra.

His works have been performed by Klangforum Wien, ensemble work in progress and Ensemble Zwischentöne in Berlin, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. On aNoise, Dream House Ensemble plays his Agrandissement on Sonorystyka No. 1.