Elnaz Seyedi was born in Tehran in 1982, she studied composition with Alireza Mashayekhi, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Jörg Birkenkötter, Caspar Johannes Walter and Michael Reudenbach in Tehran, Bremen, Essen and Basel. She has received awards and scholarships like Stuttgarter Kompositionspreis in 2025, International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) in Frankfurt am Main in 2018/19, Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Scholarship of the City Cologne and Ensemble Phoenix Basel Competition prize in 2017 and DAAD Scholarship in 2016. She was Composer in Residence by Bartels Fondation at Atelier zum Markgräflerhof in Ba...