Niki Zohdi

Niki Zohdi is a British/Persian composer, tenor & conductor. He was recently awarded with a practice PhD in composition at the University of Leeds supervised by Mic Spencer and Martin Iddon.

 

Niki completed both an undergraduate degree in music and a master’s degree in composition at Goldsmiths under the tutelage of Roger Redgate and has also received tuition in composition from Chaya Czernowin and Pierluigi Billone. His music explores the multiple dimensions and multi-layering of distortion, especially in relation to the obscuration of the pre-existing materials he uses. His music has been performed, workshopped and recorded in the UK and Europe by the Ligeti String Quartet, Achrome, Icarus vs. Musak and .abeceda [New Music Ensemble], as well as solo performers such as Carlos Cordeiro, Mauricio Galeano and Rolf Hind. Later in 2026,

 

Niki will have a brand new piece premiered by the Leipzig-based ensemble, Contemporary Insights; a theorbo piece at the Brighton Early Music Festival; and, a choir & percussion piece at the Ruvo Coro Festival in Ruvo di Puglia. In addition to being a composer, Niki is a tenor both in solo and choral contexts. He sings in the professional choir Luminatus, in the choir of Sheffield Cathedral and is a co-founder of the Yorkshire-based vocal ensemble, Vivify.

 

As a conductor, Niki is a resident conductor at the Bled Contemporary Music Festival (Slovenia) having conducted several world premieres in 2025 and has been invited back to the 2026 version of the festival as a composer and conductor in residence. Niki teaches singing, composition and theory privately in the North of England.

 

Outside of music, he enjoys test match cricket, good food and travelling the world.