COMPOSER | EDUCATOR
Since 2020, Mojan has composed the original scores for various award-winning feature and short flms, including "Over een Pastoor op Regenlaarzen" "The Gift", or "Filho" (spotlighted by The New Yorker Magazine). Her scores span fiction, documentary, and experimental cinema, commercials, and dance.
Her concert music has been performed and at major festivals such as Grachtenfestival, Gaudeamus, Feminale Hamburg, etc. Her film scores have accompanied premieres at leading events including the Nederlands Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Student Academy Awards (Oscars), or the Leeds International Film Festival (UK).
Notably, in Grachtenfestival 2023, she curated the evocative program "Migration of Violets," featuring world premieres of her compositions alongside works by other Iranian female composers.
Mojan Alaiyeh (b. 1994, Iran) is an Amsterdam-based composer and musician whose work bridges the poetic and the cinematic, weaving together contemporary and traditional influences into emotionally charged sound worlds. Her repertoire spans a diverse range of styles, transitioning from acoustic to electronic elements, while bearing the distinct influence of her Iranian musical roots.
A graduate of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Master’s in Composing for Film and Media), Mojan also teaches film music in the Young Talent department of CvA, and serves as a jury member for the Keep an Eye Film Score Award, where she previously received a special mention.
Currently, she is composing her first short opera, set to premiere in March 2026 in Florida (USA), and developing a ballet chanté, supported by Fonds Podium Kunsten, to be completed in 2026.
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