Amir Teymuri

Amir Teymuri studied composition and piano at the Faculty of Music, Performing and Visual Arts at the University of Tehran from 2003 to 2010. In 2004, he received an award at the first Biennale for New Music at the University of Tehran. From 2010 to 2018, he continued his composition studies with Cornelius Schwehr, Orm Finnendahl and Michael Reudenbach in Freiburg im Breisgau and Frankfurt am Main. In 2015, he was a scholarship holder in the Music Section at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 2018 to 2020, he also studied music informatics at the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology at the Karlsruhe University of Music (HfM). Between 2020 and 2022, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Musicology at Goethe University Frankfurt, whilst also working as an open-source software engineer in the private sector. He has been working as a freelance composer since 2022. From the summer term of 2023, he also took on teaching roles at the Institute for New Music, Composition and Conducting at the University of Music and Theatre Munich, as well as at the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology at the Karlsruhe University of Music.