Session chaired by : Jean-Michel Frodon, critic and lecturer at Sciences Po
Kioomars Musayyebi was born in 1977 in Teheran. He learned to play the santur with the famous master Faramarz Payevar. Composer Farhad Fakhredini taught him music theory and composition. In 2010, he graduated from Tehran Art University with a degree in instrumental music.
As a musician and composer, he has been active in several Iranian music groups, and has given numerous concerts in Iran and abroad, including at the Fadjr Festival in Teheran in 1992, 1994 and 1995.
From 2001 to 2008, he also accompanied two theater troupes in Tehran's Vahdat Hall. He has produced music for two films, a commercial and a series of multimedia children's stories on DVD. At the same time, he worked in his own recording studio and in three other studios as a sound engineer and producer.
At the age of 18, he began teaching santour at various music schools in Tehran. In 2007, he produced six CDs in which he gives santour lessons. In 2008, he founded his own music school in Tehran, Avay-e-Shahrzad.
Since 2011, he has been teaching, composing and performing in Germany - with musicians from Europe, India, Africa and East Asia, as well as with various international groups. In recent years, he has been invited to several festivals, including Fusion, Folk'n'Fusion, Hildesheimer Wallungen, Musica Sacra International, Essen. Original and Dastgah. Since 2013, he has been a permanent member of the Transorient Orchestra, the twelve-piece current world music big band from the Ruhr region. In 2015, he founded his own group, the Kioomars Musayyebi Quartet.
In 2015, he completed a master's degree working on "World music - cultural diversity in music education" at the University of Hildesheim, while working as a freelance teacher at the Center for World Music (CWM) - Hildesheim University Foundation.
