Biography
Kambiz Roshanravan is an Iranian composer, conductor and musician. Born in 1949 in Tehran, he trained at the National Conservatory of Music and received a BA from the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Fine Arts. He later earned a master’s degree in music composition from the University of Southern California.
Roshanravan began scoring films in the 1970s with The Traveler (1974), directed by Abbas Kiarostami. He composed the music for Kiarostami’s Close-Up (1990) and has provided scores for more than one hundred films, television series and animations, working with directors including Amir Naderi and Pouran Derakhshandeh.
Beyond cinema, he has written orchestral, chamber and vocal works, often blending Iranian traditional elements with Western forms. He has taught music for decades and authored texts on harmony and theory.
