Peyman Soltani, composer, orchestra conductor, instrumentalist and critic, was born on 17 January 1971 in Iran. He started learning music and painting in workshops of national TV and Radio of Iran and also in the free classes offered by theMinistry of Culture and Arts in 1977.Then, he started his primary education in Arya Mehr school in Kerman in 1979. At 16 he came to Tehran to study graphics. He, then, went to Armenia to continue his graduate studies in music composition.Music has always been the pillar of his life.He started playing musical instruments in a self-taught manner, then, continued played under the supervision of some famous Iranian masters like Emmanuel Melik Aslānian, Farāmarz Pāyvar, Dr. MohammadTaghi Masoudieh and Farhad Fakhreddini and… as well as some European and Armenian professors like Thomas Christian David and Yuri Davytyān. As far as philosophy and aesthetics are concernedhe has benefited from Dr. Rezā Barāheni and Dr. Manuchehr Badiei. Ever since a youth, besides learning music, he has been also teaching music playing, composingbasics, form and analysis,andunderstanding the 20th centuryand the nations’ music