Parmis Rahmani

Born in 1995, Parmis Rahmani began learning violin at age ten and moved to the kamancheh and alto kamancheh (qeychak) at thirteen, making her stage debut with various orchestras at fourteen. She completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in Iranian music at the University of Art, Tehran. She studied ear training with Amir Eslami and composition with Kourosh Matin and Armin Sanayei, and has further studied performance and radif analysis with Amir Sharifi, Ehsan Zabihifar, and Farshad Saremi. As a performer she has collaborated with Neyestan Ensemble, the Iranshahr Orchestra of Iranian Instruments, Moj-e No, and Honaravaran. In 2021 she founded the Parsia Music School, and later brought the Horno Ensemble to the stage to realize her compositional ideas within the Iranian musical tradition. In 2023 she published Mana, a book of notation and arrangements of 35 pieces for alto kamancheh. She is currently a Master's student in ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW).