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Sobhan Afsarian


Composer for Film, Animation & Concert Music

When The Winds Blow Through The Trees
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Rhapsody (Part1)
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Impressions / Miniatures for Strings
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The Horse in the Fog
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Graduate of the Royal College of Music and a composer for film, animation, and concert music. Top 10 finalist in the 2025 Oticons Faculty Film Music Competition, recognized among the top 12 composers at VIFF 2024, and selected for the 2025 Apulia Soundtrack Awards. His music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles around the world.

Film & Animation Score

A Woman On the Beach
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The light on the swimming pool floor
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The Horse in the Fog-Cue 3
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The Horse in the Fog-Cue 1
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River
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THE WASTELANDS
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Blue
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Mothers Of Plain
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Concert Music

Eastern Wind
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Remember it
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Conquerors Of Cities Gone With The Wind
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Prelude No. 11: Waltz
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Piano Sonata
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Impressions / Miniature first
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Requiem
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Movement-String Orchestra with Percussion
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ComingHome-Sobhan Afsarian
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Quartet
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Impressions / Miniature fifth
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Impressions / Miniature sixth
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More About Me

Awards

2025 Rostam and Sohrab — Special Jury Prize, Rouhollah Khaleghi Composition Award
2025 Finalist, Apulia Soundtrack Awards
2025 Top 10 Finalist, Oticons Faculty Film Music Competition
2025 Bronze Medal, Global Music Awards (Original Score)
2024 Winner, First National Creative Music Festival
2024 Top 50 Film Music Selection, European Recording Orchestra
2024 1st Prize, World's Best Musicians International Competition
2024 1st Prize, Classical Music Stars Competition
2024 Winner, Cadenza Contemporary Orchestra Composition Competition
2023 First Honorable Mention, Sempre Musick Composition Competition
2023 Royal College of Music Scholar
2022 2nd Place, Vienna Classical Music Academy Competition
2021 Selected Composer, Young Iranian Composers Association
2020 Selected Composer, Ablaze Records
2019 Nominee, Saba Festival
2018 Selected Composer, ICEBERG New Music Competition

Education

2024 MMus, Composition for Screen, Royal College of Music, London
2021 BMus, Composition, Baku Music Academy
2015 MA, Composition, Tehran University of Art
2011 BA, Music, Tehran University of Art

Book

Album for Young : 13 Selected Preludes for Piano

Prelude 1 (The Beginning)
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Prelude 2 (Chaharmezrab)
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Prelude 3 (Memory)
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Prelude 4 (Reng)
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Prelude 5 (Fall)
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Prelude 6 (March)
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Prelude 7 (The Question)
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Prelude 8 (Sea)
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Prelude 9 (Endless)
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Prelude 10 (Nostalgia)
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Prelude 11 (Waltz)
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Prelude 12 (Whisper)
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Prelude 13 (Homeland)
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Gallery

Sobhan Afsarian