Ardavan Taheri was born in Mashhad (Iran) in 1975. In his early childhood he began playing Setar and was taught by Masoud Shoari. After graduating he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehranuniversity in 1995 where he studied music and Setar and at the same time he had the opportunity to study radif of the traditional Persian music (repertoire of Iranian classical music) under survey of his masters Majid Kiani and Dariush Tala’i. He also studied composition, harmony, counterpoint and history of music. He graduated in 2000 with the diploma thesis music of Shams (an investigation of the music of Divane Shams of Rumi).
 
After that he taught rhythm and chamber music at University. Taheri worked as a chief editor for the music magazine Magham and later for the cultural and artistic field of the daily newspapers Hambastegi and E’temad. During that time it is necessary to point at his activities as an expert, a reporter and a narrator on the air and TV.
 
Since 2003 he has lived in Vienna (Austria), where he has continued his study in electro acoustics composition at the University of Music and Fine Arts supervised by professor Dieter Kaufmann and from October 2004 he is occupied by writing his dissertation in music at the University of Music and Fine Arts and the Institute of Orientalism supervised by the professors Margarita Saary und Rüdiger Lohlkehr.
 
More than hundred memoirs, essays, and also interviews at the Iranian press, dozens of interviews at the radio and television, his book Mahe Khial (The Imagined Moon) and of the transcription of the book of Habib Sama’i, scores of the films Khodayegane Khak (Gods of soil) and Gozargah (The Crossing), musical performance of Setar and Daf and also compositions in the album Rishe Dar Khak (Root in Soil), numerous concerts in Iran and Europe with the Ensemble “Irani” under the special direction of Pejhman Taheri, are counted among the results of his cultural – artistic efforts.
 
His most recent opus in the field of electro acoustics and World music is titled Rumi von Balch bis Wien (Rumi from Balch to Vienna) which was performed in the hall of the Alten Rathauses Wiens (acient town hall Vienna) in March 2005 and at the Hypocenter in Innsbruck and in Palais Ferstel Wien (Vienna) in December 2006 accompanied by dancing performance.