Fouad Samiei, an Iranian composer and multi-instrumentalist born in 1989 in Tehran, Based in Germany. Rooted in the classical Iranian music tradition and trained on percussion instruments and the tar, he began as a composer of Iranian music before gaining recognition as a film composer.
He studied under mentors including Kiawash Saheb Nasaq and Sassan Mohebbi in composition and film music, and Ali Qamsari and Hamidreza Khabazi in Iranian music and tar performance.
His works span orchestral, electro-acoustic, and folk genres, and he has composed music for television series such as Bad az Azadi, Katooni Zarangi, and Mahkoomin.
In 2024, he scored Behrooz Sebt Rasoul’s film Melody, earning awards from the Izmir and Madrid film festivals.
In 2025, after a ten-year hiatus, he returned to the concert stage as an oud player with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Gholfam Khayyam (Double Concerto).
Fouad also works extensively in sound engineering, and he currently divides his time between composing for film and series, concert performance, and studio production.