Born in Cologne, I grew up bilingual (German and Farsi) in Teheran and later Austria. I now live in Barcelona.

After attending the music program with concentration in piano at high school, I graduated in Italian and Spanish translation and interpretation from the University of Vienna with a thesis on Ruggiero Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci".

In 2012 I am writing my thesis on “Music Therapy for Children with Autism” for my post-graduate degree in Music Therapy at the University of Barcelona.

From 1994 onwards I have been working in Vienna, New York and Barcelona among others as an interpreter, translator, conference organizer and diction coach for opera singers and lately also as a music therapist.

I was able to experience the relation between breathing, sound production, timbre, phonetics and language in my voice studies starting in 1999. Then completed my training in speech technique for singers with Benno Schollum from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and with Nico Castel from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

opera & language was created in 2001.