Mehran Fanoos
Violin

Mehran Fanoos is currently a scholarship student in the Bachelor of Music program at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University (US), where he studies with the legendary violin pedagogue Mimi Zweig. Mehran started his violin studies at the age of 8 with Juilliard graduate William Harvey at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) and also briefly studied with Raja Singh while living in New Delhi, India.

Mehran has performed as a soloist at the U.S Embassy and German Embassy; for the former president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani and German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the German Embassy in Kabul; and as a featured soloist with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music Orchestra at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman. He has also collaborated with the two-time Grammy winning artist, Ricky Kej. In 2019, while living and studying in New Delhi, India under UNHCR protection, Mehran performed with the Kolkata Youth Orchestra at the Alliance Francaise.