Sepehr Karbassian is an Iranian composer and performer based in Austria. His music has been presented in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Serbia, Austria and Iran. His work is shaped by a wide range of influences, including Persian music, early music, rock music, as well as artistic movements such as Impressionism. Other art forms like painting and literature also influenced him, particularly the writings of the Persian poets Forough Farrokhzad and Mehdi Akhavan-Sales. He is fascinated by the concepts of fluid intonation, inharmonicity and emergent sounds, as well as the creation of means of communication and interaction between various sound sources.

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He has studied composition and computer music at the university of music and performing arts Graz in Austria and had the opportunity to learn from composers such as Klaus Lang, Gerhard Eckel, Annesley Black, Marko Ciciliani, Pascale Criton, Timothy McCormack, Christian Ofenbauer, Dimitri Papageorgiou, Nadir Vassena, Dmitri Kourliandski, Francesca Verunelli and Joachim Heintz.

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Sepehr is the board member of Zeitschleife cultural society in Austria. Among his other activities can be mentioned: Scoring for various films, live Performance and composing for theatre, musicological research about history and aesthetics.