Mehdi Rezania is a santur player, composer, and ethnomusicologist (PhD). He is a co-founder of Saba Centre for Culture and Arts and has served as music advisor for Iranian Heritage Day at the Royal Ontario Museum, as well as artistic advisor to the Tirgan Festival. His work for the Iran1400 Project examines the evolution of music in Iran over the past century, with particular attention to the roles of politics, migration, and globalization in shaping musical performance, composition, and modes of dissemination.