Name: Armin Sanayei
Address: Herzgasse 14/10, 1100 Wien
Date of birth: 07.11.1992
Place of birth: Teheran / Iran
Mobile number: +43 676 642 4421
1996-1998 First music lessons with Mag.Naser Nazar (Tehran)
1998-2012 Violin lessons with Prof.Ebrahim Lotfi (Tehran)
2004-2012 Composition lessons with Prof.Amir h. Eslami, Prof. Sharif Lotfi, Prof.M.R.Tafazzoli and Prof.Ahmad
Pejman (Tehran)
2006-2008 Research on Persian Traditional Music and Music in the Regions of Iran with Mr.F.Rostami ( a
folklore musician who has learned the music without studying at universities but deeply with his
heart!)
2011-2013 has studied composition at the Art University of Tehran.
2013-2014 studied composition in the Prayner Conservatory with Prof. Josef- Stoltz
2014-2019 Studied composition at the MDW University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, with
Prof.Dr.Martin Lichtfuss.
Since October of 2019 studying with Prof. Detlev M+ller-Siemens in MDW.
Artistic activities:
2012 Because of a composition Masterclass with Johanna Doderer went to Vienna.
2013 Festival 4020 has him invited to perform his clarinet quintet by “Hugo Wolf String Quartet”.
Seit 2017 becomes a member of %KB (Austrian Composers’ Union)
2018 Composition Masterclass with Prof.Peter Ruzicka (Summer Academy/Mozarteum/Salzburg)
2019 have been invited with 4 others to the InkStillWet/Grafenegg Festival Workshop with Mr. Peter
Ruzicka and Tonk+nstler Orchestra.
2019 “Veins, as tree branches” conducted by the composer and
performed by the Tonk+nstler Orchestra in the “Ink still wet” workshop in 31 August in
“Grafenegg”.
2020 1st String quartet has been performed in of 2020, 24 February in Wiener Musikverein (Brahms
Saal) by Alban Berg Ensemble.
Work list (since 2006)
1) Rondo for piano solo (2006-2007)
2) A movement for string quartet (2008)
3) Clarinet Quintet (2009)
4) “Shasusa” for piano trio (2011)
5) “Yādegāri” short film (2012)
6) “Dye Stain” for clarinet trio (2013)
7) “Three drops of Blood” for tenor and ensemble (2013)
8) “Poem” for Bassoon Solo (2014)
9) “The Bird and the Lonely Man” for Cello Solo (2015)
10) “Cercis” for saxophone and vibraphone (2016)
11) “Quintessential” for Six Musicians (2016)
12) “Mina” for bassoon solo (2016)
13) “Cock sings …!” For accordion and cello (2017)
14) “Gonbad” for cello and Persian architecture (2017)
15) “Bandari” for Gittare and Marimba (2017)
16) Work on 3 Persian folk songs for clarinet, cello and piano (2018)
17) “Mourning Music” for viola solo and string orchestra (2018)
18) String Quartet Nr.1 (2018): Composed for Alban Berg Ensemble.
19) Veins, as tree branches for Symphonic Orchestra (2018-19): composed for Tonk+nstler Orchestra, “Ink still wet” composing
conducting workshop by Mr. Peter Ruzicka
20) “Karak” for Oboe solo (2019)
21) “Dagian” for Piano solo (dedicated to and written for Prof. Kaori Nishii) (2019-2020)
