Arash Safaian is artist, composer and producer. He is the son of artist Ali Akbar Safaian, an important representative of Iranian modernism. Born in Teheran, he grew up in Bayreuth, where he was exposed to Richard Wagner\u2019s operas at an early age. Alongside his interest in music, painting and sculpture shaped his childhood and youth. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in N\u00fcrnberg and showed his series of pictures in solo and group exhibitions, before moving to the Munich College of Music and Drama to study composition. There he studied with Jan M\u00fcller-Wieland and Pascal Dusapin and film music with Enjott Schneider. He has made his mark as a composer with orchestral works, ensemble pieces, film music and operas \u2013 in New York (\u201con the beach\u201d) at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, in Berlin (\u201cDer Schuss 2-6-1967\u201d) at Oper Neuk\u00f6lln and in Munich (\u201cAt Stake\u201d) at the Opera Biennale. Safaian has won the Composition Prize of the Reinl Foundation in Vienna, the G\u00fcnther Bialas Prize, Bavaria\u2019s e-on Arts Prize and the ECHO:KLASSIK 2017 for his Piano Concerto Cycle \u201c\u00dcberBach\u201d and Bavarian Filmprice 2019 for Best Filmmusic for his LARA-Score and Piano Concerto. He has held scholarships from the Villa Concordia Bamberg, the City of Munich and Cit\u00e9 des artes Paris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n