Mahdis Golzar Kashani was born in 1984, Tehran. At age 6 she started piano lessons.
She then started learning music academically by attending the IRIB art and literature
school for kids and children. At the same time, she got valuable on stage and live
experience through solo performances for IRIB University.
After graduating from the school and while she was a student of electronic
engineering, she started taking additional Piano courses with Maestro Haynnoush
Makarian and Maestro Tamar Dolitze and theoretical courses with Maestro Mehran
Rohani. After graduation from engineering she was admitted to master course of
composition in Soore Art University of Tehran and was graduated in 2012.
Performing in some recitals, taking part in various music festivals (such as three
editions of “Classic to Contemporary”) and collaboration with Vahdat Hall’s Choir as
a pianist in parallel with her teaching as a piano tutor were some of her activities in
recent years.
She was a resident composer in 4020 Music Festival which took place in 2013,
Austria. She was also nominated as the selected composer in KLK NEW composing
competition 2013-Ukraine , Epic Persia 2014- London, semi-finalist of Maurice Ravel
competition 2015- Italy , Theodore Front Prize 2015-USA in addition to above
mentioned nominations.
She also took apart in several other music festivals in Saint Petersburg ,Sweden,
Mexico, Slovakia ,Hungary, Indonesia, Austria, Belgium ,And was consequently
invited to some European residency programs . She was commissioned to compose
music for various countries such as; Belgium, Austria, Germany and Mexico, through
which she could promote and introduce Iranian art and culture in international scenes.