Background
Sepideh Raissadat was Born in Tehran in 1980.
Sepideh Raissadat was Born in Tehran in 1980.
After she finished her Bachelor of Arts in Painting, she moved to Italy to pursue her artistic education. She graduated in Musicology majoring in Ethnomusicology from the University of Bologna.
She began studying Radif (the Repertoire of the Persian classical music) at the age of 9 with the famous Persian singer Parissa, and continued with Parviz Meshkatian and Mohammad Reza Lotfi. Her major soloist instrument is the Setar. Her first album was recorded when she was 18, thanks to Ostad Parviz Meshkatian.
While in Italy, she was invited by the Vatican and different Italian television channels and performed as a soloist with one of the oldest Italian choirs.
She also performed with the most well known Italian musicians such as Franco Battiato, Andrea Parodi, et cetera Over the past few years, she has academically researched the pre-Islamic ancient Persian music
Currently her major research area is focused on Sassanid music British Broadcasting Corporation Persian channel Close-up (Az Nazdik) program about Sepideh Raissadat.