Ardavan Taheri was born in Mashhad (Iran) in 1975. In his early childhood he started playing the Setar taught by Masoud Shoari. After graduating high school he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran in 1995 where he studied  music and the Setar. At the same time he had the opportunity to study Radif of the traditional Persian music (repertoire of Iranian classical music) under the tutelage of his masters Majid Kiani and Dariush Talaii. He also studied composition, harmony, counterpoint and history of music. In 2000, he graduated writing the thesis ''Music of Shams'' (an investigation of the music of Divane Shams of Rumi).
 
After graduating he taught rhythm and chamber music at the University of Sooreh.
Ardavan started his journalistic activities as the chief editor of the music magazine Magham.  Later on, he became also a columnist for the cultural and artistic section of the daily newspapers Hambastegi and Etemad. During the same period he was a musical expert, a reporter and an host at radio and TV.
In 2003 he moved to Vienna (Austria), where he continued his studies in ''Electro Acoustics Composition'' at the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts supervised by professor Dieter Kaufmann.
 
Since October 2004 he is researching and writing his Doctorate thesis in music at the University of Music and Fine Arts, and at The Institute of Oriental-ism supervised by the professors Margarita Saary und Rüdiger Lohlkehr.
Taheri is a seasoned journalist and writer. Countless memoirs and essays, radio and television interviews, as well as a published book Mahe Khial (The Imagined Moon) resume  his literary activities.
 
The transcription of  Habib Samaii's music, scores of the films ''Khodayegane Khak'' (Gods of soil) and ''Gozargah'' (The Crossing), performance of Setar, Daf and 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 Pejman Taheri, are counted among his cultural – artistic efforts.
 
His most recent achievement 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 (ancient Vienna town hall) in March 2005 and at the Hypocenter in Innsbruck and in Palais Ferstel Wien (Vienna) in December 2006 accompanied by dance performance.
 
Ardavan Taheri started Gymnastics trainings at the age of 4 and continued Kickboxing for a while before switching to TaekwonDo.
 
He has his first Dan in TaekwonDo and is an official TaekwonDo trainer and referee in Austria.