Kayvan Mirhadi

Kayvan Mirhadi (born January 20, 1960) is an Iranian composer, conductor, and guitarist. In the course of his career Mirhadi has conducted many choirs and chamber orchestras dedicated to classical music. He owns a choir and chamber orchestra called Camerata and has begun to perform contemporary classical such as Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt in Iran.
For the first time in Iran he arranged some tracks of rock-band celebrities for his orchestra such as Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Scorpions, Iron Maiden and has begun to give live concerts. He has been performing and conducting Camerata Tehran for more than a decade, in 2011 he performed in Aix-en-Provence Cathedral with Camerata Tehran and it was the first time a private self-employed classical ensemble ever performed abroad.
He has been performing in prestigious Halls in Iran and through a decade he performed more than 60 concerts with Camerata. The last one was Aug 2018 introducing two new guitar concertos to the Iranian audience. He has taught choir, Guitar, Theory of western music and History at the University of Tehran, Azad University, Tehran Conservatory and the old and prestigious Tehran College of music (Honarestan). and recently at Elmi-Karbordi University branch 46 ( Classical Guitar and Western traditional harmony)
Mirhadi has been one of the founders and jurors for the Young Guitarists Festival called Tehran guitar competition from 2002 to 2017 and the chief-juror for Isfahan’s first festival on Guitar. He published a book called Music A-Z on the Theory of western music.
He conducted a fusion concert and transcribed the works of the Setar virtuoso Massoud Shoari for large classical-traditional ensemble and gave a concert in 2003 at the Tehran Opera House (Vahdat Hall).
During 2002-3, he wrote essays and critics on music and musicians in “Golestaneh” art magazine. Mirhadi has written and translated four books on music.