Persian Composer
Independent Musician
Visual Artist.

A Vienna based organization dealing with performance, interpretation and documentation of various musical cultures around the globe.

The guitar player and composer, Mohammad Azmand, was born in 1987 in Tehran. He started  Rock music learning when he was twelve years old. Some years later, he got familiar with Iranian regions music and did his best to comprehend and learn it. Meanwhile, through studying painting in an art school, he had the opportunity to gain a better perception of art. After graduation from the art school, he began learning Jazz music and in 2008, he won the first prize in the First National Jazz music competition which was held in Iranian Artists' House. He has performed a number of concerts with several bands in and out of Iran and In recent years with his own Quartet he has been trying to find the common features of Iranian and Jazz music in order to bridge the gap between these two and come up with a unique tune.

Multi genre Singer,Songwriter
minorammusic

Aida Shahghasemi is a Minneapolis based musician with roots in Iran. She studied Psychology and Anthropology at University of Minnesota with a focus on the cultural aspects of Persian Classical Music and the restrictions imposed on the voices of Iranian female vocalists. She received her Masters degree from New York University in Arts Politics where she also served as an adjunct instructor teaching a course she developed on arts activism in Iran. She has worked with a number of different Art and Social Advocacy groups in New York and Minnesota as a musician, graphic designer, and developer and has served as an Assistant Program Coordinator at Hamline University’s Making Waves Social Justice Theatre Troupe. She has been a touring member of Iron and Wine and Marketa Irglova’s band while also being a recording artist on two of Glen Hansard’s albums. Her three albums are “Wind Between the Horse’s Ears,” released in 2015, “Cypress of Abarkooh,” released in 2019 and “Chashmandaaze Rooydaad,” released in August of 2022. She is a McKnight Music Fellow and serves as an adjunct faculty in the MFA program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Aida is a mental health therapist at Hiraeth Psychotherapy and works primarily with adults and couples dealing with trauma.

Heydar Hedayati (Heydoo) is an Iranian composer, singer, photographer, and videographer born in 1990 in southern Iran (Bushehr).
Heydoo was introduced to folk music and local songs at a young age by his family. He initially played the بوشهری نی‌همبانه (Ney-Anbaneh) and percussions. At the age of 15, he began learning the piano. After moving to Tehran, he studied filmmaking.
Since 2010, Heydoo has been working professionally as a documentary and social photographer, and has held several solo and group exhibitions.
In the field of music, Heydoo has released one album called "Tirishko" and several singles in collaboration with artists such as Fardin Khalatbari and Mehyar Alizadeh. He has also conducted research on Iranian seafaring music and labor music for many years, resulting in the publication of several videos focusing on the ethnography and folk music of different regions of Iran.

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