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As concerto soloist Mr. Nasseri has appeared with 10 different conductors and as a recording artist he released 6 solo discs on Naxos, Centaur, Mahoor, and 21CCC. Nasseri has premiered 25 new works and 9 composers have written pieces specifically for him. He divides his time between residences in New York and Berlin. Bijan Tehrani: What motivated you to become a musician?

Soheil Nasseri: I love music and I like to be the center of attention so being a performer of music made perfect sense. BT: Tell us a little bit about your background.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Soheil Nasseri is an Iranian-American recital pianist based in New York and Berlin.

SN: I was born in Santa Monica, and there was a piano in my daycare center so I heard other kids playing the piano and I wanted to learn how to play. I actually remember wanting to become a concert pianist when I was seven, so it is my childhood dream. BT: You have had a wonderful success, playing with major orchestras from around the world.

Tell us a bit about how it started to get into these kinds of performances.

The Berlin-based Iranian-American pianist Soheil Nasseri has an unusual biography: as a child he hardly practiced, discovering later that the piano was a means to .

SN: One starts by playing for free. I volunteered when I was eighteen to play a half-dozen concerts at a retirement home, or rather a program for seniors where people would travel to a location to hear concerts and the performers are mostly young musicians who are all playing for free. I had volunteered to play twelve concerts in one particular August of and at some of those concerts was a person who would later become one of my main patrons and she would help me get other concerts and support me by giving me financial contributions to further my career.

So that was the start of my career. The composer wrote to the editor and was from the same town, and then they covered my next show.