Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi (b. 1997 Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian/Canadian composer based in Vancouver, Canada. Working with instrumental and electroacoustic media, she has actively collaborated on projects written for dance performance and film in addition to concert pieces. She seeks to incorporate into her music her experiences of the cultural contexts she has been living in so far.   She was recently commissioned by Western From to write for their 8.2 octophonic sound system and has just finished her artist residency at Media Arts Committee. Koochakzadeh-Yazdi has recently joined the New Music on the Point program as participant composer and will be attending EQ:Evolution of the String Quartet at Banff Centre along with wasteLAnd’s 2019 Summer Academy in July and August also as participant composer. She is currently studying composition at Simon Fraser University with Sabrina Schroeder, Owen Underhill and Mauricio Pauly.