Mostafa Taleb, born in the Iranian province of Lorestan, started to learn the kamancheh, an ancestral bowed-string instrument, at an early age. A graduate of the Azar Mehr Folklore Academy in Khorramabad and the Kamkarha Academy for Classical Persian Music in Teheran, he arrived in Brussels in 2016. His talent and extraordinary musical personality enabled him to overcome the difficulties of exile and establish a solid reputation as a performer, improviser and composer. In Europe, doors opened for him: invited by the legendary conductor Jordi Savall, he took part in numerous concerts across Europe with the Orpheus XXI ensemble. With the Cinemaximiliaan Silent Film Music’s “Egged on” project, Mostafa founds several innovative music groups, always inspired by Persian music, such as the Hamnava and Illumination ensembles. In 2016, he composed and improvised for the string quintet “About that magic circle” and for the film “Always there is no one” by Mansur Azizi. In 2018, he collaborated with Simon Ho (Switzerland) to compose the music for a silent film at the Silent Film Festival in Ghent (Belgium). Entering the world of theater, in 2019 he joined the cast of Lisaboa Houbrechts’ audacious play, “Bruegel”, for which he composed the music. Along with harpsichordist and organist Jérôme Bertier and the singers of the Harmonia Sacra choir, the Bruegel set has since played all over Europe. Mostafa and Jérôme Bertier’s literary and musical exchanges lead them
to create the Ârgha/Nun ensemble, whose common ground is a dialogue between Europe and Persia.

Milad Mohammadi, born in 1988 in Iran, is a tar player and multi-instrumentalist. He began his music studies at the age of 12 at the renowned Tehran Music School, from which he graduatedin 2005. He also holds a degree in Iranian music from the University of Music in Tehran. At the closing ceremony of the 8th Youth Festival in 2014 in Iran, the young musician won first place in the “Tar music” category. Starting in 2012, he recorded numerous albums: his first instrumental album, Shadow, was released in 2012, followed by The Metamorphosed in 2014. He collaborated with some of the greatest Iranian musicians, including Hoshyar Khayyam, with whom he released Music for Tar and Piano (a top-selling album in Iran, awarded the best instrumental fusion album in 2018),
Alireza Ghorbani for the album Blaze, and the legendary Homayoun Shajarian for the album Rag Khab. He also composed Taroud, a solo piece that introduced a new style of Iranian music. In addition to his extensive knowledge of classical and traditional Persian music, Milad Mohammadi constantly seeks to break free from stylistic and technical boundaries.

Rouzbeh Sayadii is a musician and composer with more than twelve years of dedicated training in the tar and setar under respected masters of Persian classical music. He specializes in improvisational performance grounded in the Persian radif tradition as well as contemporary composition. His experience includes solo performance, ensemble leadership, and the creation of original music for large-scale theatrical productions.
He is currently seeking professional representation to support the organization and performance of concert tours across Europe and internationally. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature. His formal studies in Persian classical music began in November 2012. In recent years, he has worked closely with Mohammad Ali Najafpour (composition and theory, 2022–present) and Maysam Zahed (radif and advanced studies, 2024–present). His tar training has also been shaped by Alireza Khoshrouei and Pouria MohammadNejad in Gorgan, as well as Hadi Azarpira, Eisa Ghaffari, and Kiarash Rouzbehani in Tehran.
Earlier in his musical development, he studied setar with Kourosh Yaghmaei and also learned from Davood Khoshnoudi and Babak Khademloo. As a performer, Sayyad appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, in November In February 2020, he performed with the YARAVA Modern Orchestra at the University of Tehran’s Contemporary Music Concert. He has also led and performed in multiple concerts in Gorgan, Iran, in 2019 and 2023.