About Me.

Sepehr Karbassian is an Iranian composer and performer based in Austria.

He has studied composition and computer music at the university of music and performing arts Graz in Austria and had the opportunity to learn from composers such as Klaus Lang, Gerhard Eckel, Annesley Black, Marko Ciciliani, Christian Ofenbauer, Dimitri Papageorgiou, Nadir Vassena, Dmitri Kourliandski, Francesca Verunelli and Joachim Heintz.

His music has been performed in Austria, Spain, Italy, Germany, Serbia and Iran. All varieties of Persian music, early music, rock music, impressionism, and other types of art such as painting and literature have influenced him, and particularly Persian poets such as Forough Farrokhzad and Mehdi Akhavan-Sales. He is fascinated by the concepts of intonation and inharmonicity, as well as the creation of means of communication and interaction between various sound sources.

Sepehr is the board member of Zeitschleife cultural society in Austria. He began his music studies in Iran with guitar performance and film scoring techniques with Babak Mirzakhani, as well as music theory, contemporary composition, and piano performance with Vartan Sahakian, Mazyar Younesi, Arash Teymourian, and double bass performance with Parvaneh Anaraki. Among his activities can be mentioned: Scoring for various films, live Performance and composing for theatre, musicological research about history and aesthetics.