Ramin Amir Arjomand is a pianist, improviser, composer, and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. His music blurs distinctions between composition and improvisation, demanding in each the spontaneity as well as the level of formal intelligence often associated with one or the other individually and exclusively. His playing draws as much on a 19th-century European approach to piano resonance as on the unfettered sensibility of American avant-garde jazz. Beneath the surface lies a musical ethos that quietly echoes the Iranian dastgāh tradition. His interest in speech as music has led to a wide variety of concert, electroacoustic and music theater works that experiment with the human voice in different ways. He has worked extensively in dance theater, and has developed collaborative models in which composer and choreographer can trust one another to work freely and independently toward a common goal.