He started learning music and painting in workshops on national TV and Radio in Iran and in the free classes offered by the Ministry of Culture and Arts in 1977.

He started playing musical instruments in a self-taught manner, then continued playing under the supervision of some famous Iranian masters such as Emmanuel Melik Aslānian, Farāmarz Pāyvar, Dr. Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh and Farhad Fakhreddini as well as some European and Armenian professors like Thomas Christian David and Yuri Davytyān.

As far as philosophy and aesthetics are concerned, he has benefited from Dr. Reza Baraheni and Dr. Manuchehr Badiei.

In the early 90s, he organized two music ensembles: Shabānroud, with his students, and Shenidastān, with the young instrumentalists.

In his former philosophical and critical writing, Peyman Soltani was a follower of analytical philosophy (Existentialists).