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A bio is something bands are supposed to have on their websites, and is an abbreviation for biography. It's a tool we are told to use by the marketing people we can't afford yet, because we are a new band. We are supposed to tell you things like, our name is ROHAN. We are from Brisbane, Queensland Australia. And compare our music to Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, Failure, Nirvana, Clutch or any other popular band we feel inspired by, in an effort to appeal to your taste in music... before you have even heard one of our songs. They...

Nizar Rohana is a prominent Oud player in the Palestinian musical scene. Rohana was born in the village of ‘Esefya on Mount Carmel in 1975. He began his musical education at an early age and playing the Oud by the age of fifteen, and in 1996 he moved to Jerusalem to take up academic studies. Focusing his research on the music of the great Egyptian composer Mohammad el-Qasabji, Rohana completed his Masters degree in Musicology 2006. Together with an intensive activity on the local musical scene, during the last ten years Rohana has been performing in many countries around the...

Rohan Kriwaczek showed an early interest in music and started composing when he was seven. As a teenager he studied with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Oliver Knussen and Judith Wier before taking degrees at the University of Sussex and the Royal Academy of Music. Rohan has written numerous scores for TV, radio and the theatre alongside developing a career performing E. European, Middle Eastern and Jewish folk music. His classical compositions bear witness to these interests, and to his award winning experiments in multimedia radio with producer Lance Dann. As a violinist, clarinettist and bagpipe player he has performed in...

Shardad Rohani is an Iranian composer, violinist/pianist, and conductor. His style is contemporary (sometimes even New Age), especially when compared with his mentors/inspirations, Anoushiravan Rohani and Javad Maroufi. He is probably most known for arranging and conducting the Yanni Live at the Acropolis concert, an open-air concert with the London Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra in the Parthenon, Athens, Greece. This concert was acclaimed by both critics and audience and became the most widely viewed program ever shown on Public Television in United States and is the second best-selling music video of all time. Having been educated since childhood at very...