Samin Ghorbani

Samin Ghorbani

Samin Ghorbani, born 1985 in Tehran, began her musical training at age 8 under her father’s guidance. She further honed her skills with esteemed instructors, including Hossein Baharbin (voice production), Parisa (Mahmoud Karimi vocal line), and Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh (Taherzadeh style). Additionally, she studied Iranian music with Mir Saeed Hosseini Panah and learned setar under Tooraj Zadpour, Behdad Babaei, and Shahabuddin Azinmehr. She has worked with groups like Nastar, Mojan, Sayesar, Nariman, Ronak, and Raf. Ghorbani has performed in Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Germany, and Turkey, showcasing Iranian classical and regional music, especially from Azerbaijan. She has appeared on the stage in major festivals and programs, amongst others at Duisburg Philharmonic, Reeperbahn Festival, Wemax Festival, Dede Effendi Museum (Turkey) and Chista Festival (Sweden). Ghorbani has been part of the music projects of Female Voice of Iran in collaborations with Contemporary Opera Berlin. Recently, some of her works have been published with the composition of Siamak Jahangiri, and also one of the latest works with Master Hossein Alizadeh. She has also collaborated in the music project of the Cinema movie Atabai, directed by Nikki Karimi. In visual arts, she has illustrated several primary school textbooks.


Photo: Christoph Wieland