Sahba Aminikia

Composer and pianist Sahba Aminikia is foremost an artist, whose view of the arts as one inseparable entity informs his broad body of work. Born in Iran in 1981, Aminikia studied music composition in Russia at the St. Peterersburg State Conservatory under Boris Ivanovich, a post-graduate student of Dmitry Schostakovich. In his homeland, Aminikia studied under renowned Iranian pianists Safa Shahidi and Gagik Babayan. He was perhaps most influenced by work with his first teacher and reknown composer, Dr.Mehran Rouhani, a graduate of Royal Academy of Music and former student of Michael Tippet.