Payman Fiuzat

Payman Fiuzat (borne in 7 December 1981 in Tehran, is a classical western musician, podcaster and novelist. He is the son of Ibrahim Fiuzat, a well-known deceased professor of sociology at Tehran and Shahid Beheshti university, and Parvin Vosughi, a retired nurse. His professional instrument is piano, and his teaching activities is concentrated on teaching to children. He has performed in several concerts. 
Despite his musical performance and career, His main international prominence, particularly in Persian literature is due to a trilogy of short-long fictional stories that he authored in recent years and noticed by youths as the representation of young generation lifestyle and their social interactions. His books are admired by several famous writers such as Morteza Kotobi, Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou and Masoud Behnoud. 
== Biography ==
He was born in upper-middle class, and he is the only boy of his family. his mother and father belong to Iranian intellectual communities. His father is originally from Fars province, but he grew up in Tehran. 
He started his musical exercises from the childhood, and he completed several musical courses, including Houroush Asadi basic courses in playing piano, advanced courses of Arman Behboudi and Nasrin Esmaili and Master courses of Tamara Doulidzeh. 
In 2000, he was accepted in Iran's national university entrance exam, and he chose Azad university of Tehran to start a BSc degree program in electronics but he leaved this program as soon as he discovered his tendency toward artistic activities. Determined in focusing on art and literate, he also decided to begin a new academic trajectory in learning English. In 2006, he was graduated in English literature. 
He started creative writing seriously at the age of eighteen by composing short stories for literary magazines and he was nominated for Sadegh Hedayat literature awards in 2007 for a short story, called as "Palm" (persian: کف دست). 
Despite music, he is a self-taught creative writer, and he did not participate in official writing courses although he is in contact with independent elite communities due to his traditional family bonds and his competence in establishing new linkages between various art practitioners and their audiences. 
He continuously has held his own piano courses for children and taught in several private music education institution since 2002. He has seasonally arranged and held participatory concert for children as a routine, where kids and adolescents can perform on the stage, commentate on others' performance, and experience a common coeducation event. 
In 2016, he was informed that his father is suffering from dementia. A vast part of his time, since then, had spent to take care of his father and it made him to focus less on creative writing. In this era, he devoted his time to record the memoir of his father, which is an important part of oral history of socialist movement as he was one of the key players of Tudeh party in Iran in 1950s and 1960s. Moreover, he began to learn more about mental diseases and elderly care giving as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Meanwhile, he started to experience composing non-fictional text for teenagers, particularly to introduce them to their city in which they live, its attractions and its historical narrations. 
After his father is passed away in 2022, he has gradually extended his cultural activities by recording a series of podcast, adapted by his older pieces of creative writing and complemented by his favorite western classical Musics.
== works == 
*Fiction
**2015 Empty Prison Wards (Persian: بندهای خالی)
**2016 A blind alley in Africa (Persian: بن‌بستی در آفریقا)
**2017 The Pinned (Persian: آچمزشده‌ها) - A collection of 4 short stories. 
*Non-Fiction
**2017 Our city of Tehran; an Introduction for adolescents
**2019 The Handbook of Tourism in Tehran
*Podcasts
** 2022 Major - Solfege for people with vision disabilities
*concerts 
**2023 Concert at the embassy of Germany - A selection Don Giovanni opera, composed by Mozart and Mery Widow, opera composed by Lehar 
== Hobbies ==
He is a semi-professional mountaineer and climber, an amateur tour guide for children, particularly in the field of history and nature, a photographer of rare birds, ecotourist and semi-professional screenwriter.
Category:Iranian people
Category:1981 births
Category:Iranian musicians