Nazanin Aghakhani (Persian: نازنین آقاخانی, also Romanized as “Nāzanīn Āghākhānī”; born 22 April 1980 in Vienna, Austria)[1] is an orchestral conductor.
[2] From the age of twelve, she studied the classical piano at the Vienna Conservatory with Karl Barth, later with Meira Farkas.
In Stockholm, Nazanin Aghakhani studied also electro-acoustic composition, instructed by Bill Brunson and Fredrik Hedelin.
In 2008 Aghakhani finished her Master of Arts degree with distinction at the Sibelius Academy, where she studied orchestral and operatic conducting with Leif Segerstam.
She made her début as a conductor at the Musica Nova Festival in 2007, an annual contemporary music event in Helsinki where she was invited again in 2008 and 2009.