California-native Soheil Nasseri has performed in some of the world's most important concert halls, including New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, Berlin's Philharmonie, London's Southbank Centre, Tokyo's Musashino Center, Théâtre Fémina in Bordeaux, Florence's Teatro Comunale, Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, St. Petersburg’s Philharmonia, Tehran’s Talar-e Vahdat, Bucharest’s Opera Nationala, and in dozens of American towns including twenty completely different solo recitals in New York City at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kaufman Center earning him the New Yorker’s distinction “one of New York’s most prolific recitalists.” The New York Times writes: “This imaginative, technically assured pianist invariably finds something fresh to say about whatever music he has on his stand.” And the Berliner Zeitung: “We in the audience could not possibly have had more fun. Fantastic!” Born in Santa Monica, Soheil Nasseri’s most influential mentor is the American pianist Jerome Lowenthal. Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Claude Frank, Clinton Adams, and Irina Edelman also made significant contributions to his musical development.