About

Shahram Yazdani is an Iranian-German opera singer, singing teacher and songwriter based in Germany. In 1999, he began his education in music theory under the guidance of Morteza Del Shab. From 2003 to 2007, he studied with Franco Tenelli.
In 2010, he received his master’s degree in music and began his professional life as a teacher and musician in Iran.
As a teacher at music schools in Tehran and Alborz, he gave numerous singing seminars and workshops throughout Iran and was a guest professor at Alborz University of Arts in 2015-2016. At the same time, he gave concerts across the country in the prestigious Rudaki and Vahdat halls, where he sang Rigoletto and Tosca as well as solos with the Aiso Orchestra under the direction of Christian Schultz.
In 2016, at the invitation of the director of the Franz Liszt International Society in Grottammare, he moved to Italy, where he was a member of the jury of the competition for young musicians. A year later, he moved to Germany, where he now lives permanently and where he had the opportunity to study with Chris Merritt, Martin Muehle, Montserrat Caballé, as well as Nicola Martinucci, Giancarlo del Monaco and Aprile Millo.
In September 2023, he received the 3rd prize at the Metropolitan Melodies, the New York International Singing Competition.
Over the last 4 years, he has performed as a tenor in numerous gala concerts organized by Opera Classica Europa, as well as in the gala series dedicated to Enrico Caruso, in the presence of Enrico Caruso’s great-grandson.
In May 2023 he made his debut as Don José in a production of the opera Carmen produced by Camerata Bardi and Teatro Grattacielo in Greece/Crete with the Athens Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Myron Michailidis, which led him being invited again to sing this time in August 2024 as Don José in Spain, south of Madrid with the La Mancha Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Francisco-Antonio Moya.
In September 2023 he was nominated as one of the 8 finalists for the 23rd Gala Tournament of Great Tenors, which took place as an open-air evening in front of 3000 spectators at the Letni Summer Theater organized by Opera Na Zamku and its orchestra conducted by Maestro Jerzy Wołosiuk in Szczecin/Poland.
He will be debuting the Role of Prince “Sou Chong” from the Operetta “Das Land des Lächelns” composed by Franz Lehár in June 2025 in Germany.

He will appear as Don José two more times in July & August 2025 in Vienna.
Canio will be his next role in a full production of Pagliacci in Kurhaus Bad Schwalbach in September 2025.
He is invited for the Second Edition of Romana Vaccaro International Singing Competition as one of the Jury memebers which takes place in Bad Schwalbach in August.

In summer 2026, he will debut the title role in Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello in an open-air production of the opera in Germany.
Filmmakers Margit Lukacs and Persijn Broerson created an Avatar music video in which Shahram sings his Persian version of Nat King Cole’s Nature Boy. The film has been shown in Paris, the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, and museums in Denmark, Belgium, South Korea and China.
Shahram is also active in contemporary music and was selected for the role of Bloom based on James Joyce’s Ulysses, The Wandering composed by Ken Shakin, which premiered in 2018 at the Delphi Theater in Berlin as part of the Irish Embassy’s cultural program. He then played the role of Thoth in Shakin’s Songs of the Dead at Bethanien.
He is the founder of the “Shahram Yazdani Voice Competition”, which he founded and has been held annually since 2023 to discover and promote talented Iranian singers.
Shahram has sung and produced over 14 pop singles in various languages as well as Persian, Italian, Portuguese, German and English. In his many recitals and performances, he blends the many languages of song, from opera arias to love songs to Italian tenor classics such as La Danza and O Sole Mio, into a unique sound, from the heart of one man, that brings joy and tears to every audience.