Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi


Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi is an Iranian musician and composer.

Life and career

Goorangi started playing piano and the dulcimer at a young age. He gained his first musical experiences by composing songs for the Educational-affairs Association of Education Organization when he was in high school. He had the honor of being instructed by some of the greatest musicians such as: the deceased professor Mohammad-Taghi Masoodie, Dr.Alireza Mashayekhi, Dr. Shahin Farhat, Sharif Lotfi, Majid Kiani, the deceased Mohammad-Ali Haddadian, Mohammad Esmaili, Masood Shenasa, Dr. Amir-Ashraf Arianpoor and Mohammad-Reza Darvishi while studying at the university.
In 1995 he started working for the IRIB, composing and arranging melodies, songs and orchestral pieces. In 1996 he became a member of the Young Composers Association of the IRIB Organization, managed by Dr. Hassan Riahi. He started his professional career in film music by composing music for short films while he was a university student. Since then he has composed and arranged music for over 100 films, TV series, songs, melodies, orchestral pieces, animations, documentaries and plays of different scales and genres. At the moment, his major activities are lecturing at the university and composing sound tracks for movies and TV series. The album, A Truth Like an Imagination, released in 2015, is a selection of his six film and series scores.

Professional experiences and qualifications