[3] He received the Luitpold Prize (German: Luitpoldpreis) of the Festival Kissinger Sommer in 2014.

In 2013, he won the first prize at the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki, Finland.

He has also won the first prize in the Karl Davidoff International Cello Competition in Latvia and the International Cello Competition 'Antonio Janigro' in Croatia,[5] and became a member of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 2014.

[6] Kian Soltani signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Classics in 2017.

[4] His debut album Home was released in February 2018, and pairs works by Schubert and Schumann with folk song settings by Reza Vali and Soltani himself.