Peyman Yazdanian

Peyman Yazdanian (Persian: پیمان یزدانیان , born in 1968) is an Iranian pianist and music composer. He has written over forty pieces for solo piano and has composed for both national and foreign feature films. He wrote original soundtracks for plays and multimedia.

He was trained by pianist Farman Behboud. He attended the courses of Gerhard Geretschlaeger in Vienna and Ginette Gaubert in Marseille. In conducting, he studied under Iradj Sahbai in Strasbourg.

As a pianist-interpreter, he won first prize in the competition of excellence at the Musical Confederation of France in 2000. He is recognized for his interpretations of works by Rachmaninov, Liszt, Beethoven, and Chopin.

In 1998, he began writing film music for the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us.

Peyman Yazdanian composed the music for Summer Palace by Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye, a film selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. He composes for Iranian film makers, such as One Night for Niki Karimi (2005) or Fire Party for Asghar Farhadi (2006), but also contributes to French-Italian productions (The Forbidden Chapter in 2006), German productions (Full Metal Village, best documentary at the Guild of German Art House Cinemas in 2007) or American productions such as Man Push Cart (selected at the Sundance Film Festival).

Peyman Yazdanian writes music for the theater as well as solo piano works. He is the creator of a new form of expressionism based on Persian motifs and oriental accents. He is currently preparing the recording of his work A Tea Collection for String Ensemble, dedicated to the benefits of tea, by the London Symphonic Orchestra.[citation needed ]

Films for which he has composed music include:

Yazdanian wrote music for Prophet Joseph, an Iranian TV Show directed by Farajollah Salahshoor.

Piano Compositions More than 40 pieces for solo piano including 4 preludes, 2 fantasies, 1 ballad, 1 barcarolle, 5 suites and a few pieces in free style.

Orchestral Compositions A Tea Collection for A String Ensemble in six movements. (2007)

Piano Recordings Played and recorded 3 Inventions, Un homage de Ravel and 15 traditional voices for piano by Irajd Sahbai in a CD published by Kargah Musiqi. (2003)

Played and recorded a piece named "Eghbal" by Mohammad Reza Darvishi published in the "Goosh" series by Mahriz publishing company. (2003)

Music for plays The original soundtrack for the play For a More Important Thing, based on the story Hope For the Flowers, directed by Sheyda Safavi, Iran 1998

Music for multimedia The original soundtrack for Negah Multimedia CD-ROM, Cinema ’76, Iran 1997 The original soundtrack for Negah Multimedia CD-ROM, Footballopedia ’98, Iran 1998 The original soundtrack for Multimedia CD-ROM Kish ‘77, produced by Kish Free Zone Organization, Iran 1998 The original soundtrack for Negah Multimedia CD-ROM, Art Gallery, Iran 2001