Ramin Bahrami

was born in Tehran and studied music at the Conservatory of Milan and the Academy in Imola. He has devoted his career to the study and the interpretation of Bach’s monumental work. He has performed in the world’s leading concert halls and festivals, alone or together with such performers as Maurizio Pollini, Grigory Sokolov, Daniel Barenboim, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Evgeny Kissin and Mario Brunello. He has created the World Bach-Fest and is now its president. He has an exclusive recording contract with Decca-Universal. However, his performance of the Goldberg Variations and of the Art of the Fugue is included in Deutsche Grammophon’s Bach Collection (2011) alongside with other Bach performances by Karl Richter and Wilhelm Kempff among others. The recent recordings of his concerts Riccardo Chailly and of his performance of Bach’s English Suites were included in Nielsen’s Top Ten list. Ramin Bahrami has authored the book Come Bach mi ha salvato la vita [“How Bach saved my life”], published by Mondadori in 2012.