Nazanin Aghakhani (born April 22, 1980 in Vienna, Austria), Aghakhani took piano lessons since the age of seven. From the age of twelve, she studied the classical piano at the Vienna Conservatory with teachers Karl Barth and Meira Farkas. At the same time she studied counterpoint and conducting with Thomas Christian David and continued these studies first at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In 2008 as assistant conductor for Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival in Austria.