Bahman Mehabadi

[2] He has performed regularly in Europe, North America, and Asia, both as a recitalist and with SOL Music Ensemble.

[3] Bahman Mehabadi was born in Tabriz, Iran, to a family who deeply loved music, art, and literature.

He began to study violin at Tabriz Music Art School [4] and continued at Conservatory of Azerbaijan [5] with Professor Zavin Yedigharians.

[8] In another short stay, in 1983, he founded SOL Music Center in Tabriz, which was moved to Tehran after several years of activity.

[25][26][27][28] In January 2006, Mehabadi participated in MIDEM (Cannes, France) both as a violinist and as a publisher of classical music recordings.

The album named “Mehabadi and J. S.Bach” is the live recording of his performing Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas.

[62] Moreover, he has a few articles about music and theater, including the reviews on “Three Sisters” from Anton Chekhov, “An Enemy of the People” from Henrik Ibsen, etc., all published in Theatre (Namayesh) Monthly Review: Mehabadi has composed many pieces in different forms for ensemble, which are often played in his concerts with SOL Music Ensemble and other music groups; including “Love of Freedom” [63] , “Sonata in a minor: Nostalgia” [64] (recorded in "Summer", the 1st album), “Lirico”, “Three Movements for Sorrow” [65] , “San Fantasy”, “Romance in G" [66] [67] (recorded in "Liebesleid", the 17th album), “Andre Gide Sonata” (recorded in "Fall", the 2nd album), and “Letter” for piano and string ensemble.

Since a teenager, he has been interested in poetry, like his father who was fond of philosophy and literature, and showed a good talent in this field.

In 1985 Bahman Mehabadi and Ahad Manteqi collected and published a selection of the poems of their contemporary Iranian poets, in the book "The Voice of the Contemporary Poetry" (Sedaye She're Emrooz): At Tabriz Music Art School, Bahman Mehabadi used to take painting classes of Professor Ibrahim Moqbeli.