Saman Samadi

Saman Samadi (born 1984) is a Persian-American composer, performer, and musicologist with a prolific body of work spanning nearly twenty years.

Samadi's compositional approach, characterized by a melding of complexity and expressivity, draws inspiration from Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, James Dillon, and Chris Dench.

His work employs microtonal modes derived from Persian classical music, creating a unique pitch space with heterophonic textures, polyrhythms, and polymeters.

Samadi reimagines Persian calligraphy, incorporating it as both visual and structural elements in his Augenmusik scores, thus creating a multi-dimensional experience that echoes with philosophical and poetic qualities.

Samadi studied composition with Alireza Mashayekhi, who was a student of Hanns Jelinek, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg.