Composer Kamyar Mohajer blends Eastern modality with a distinctive approach to harmony, counterpoint, and polytonality. He has studied composition and orchestration with celebrated composer and Juilliard faculty member Behzad Ranjbaran, award-winning Stanford composer Giancarlo Aquilanti, and, most recently, renowned pedagogue and composer Derek Remeš. Mohajer earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in music from York University in Toronto, where he studied piano with Christina Petrowska-Quilico and Antonín Kubálek.

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The sounds of Persian music have influenced Mohajer since infancy, when his mother, a music educator and vocalist, sang lullabies to him. “My upbringing inspires me to blend the melodies I heard as a child with my love for Western polyphony,” says Mohajer.

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Mohajer's music has been performed by esteemed ensembles such as the the Alexander String Quartet, Portland Youth Philharmonic, Rockford Symphony Orchestra, the Ives Collective, and the Stanford Wind Ensemble, among others. His compositions include Symphony No. 1, Dances and Poem for orchestra, Amoroso for string orchestra, Lights Away for string orchestra and Persian instruments, Six Variations for piano and orchestra, Reminiscence for concert band, solo piano works, and numerous chamber pieces, including a string quartet, a woodwind quintet, a string trio, and Five Songs for soprano and piano, based on the poetry of Hafez.