Artist Training - Course: Music
Artist Training / Access Art Schools Berlin
6-17 October 2025: Building Your Music Life in Berlin: A Practical Guide by Soheil Soheili & Niki Yaghmaee
Their journey as artists who moved from Tehran to Berlin in similar years has provided invaluable lessons in navigating a new cultural and professional landscape. Having been active for some years prior to relocating, they found it a rewarding experience to involve themselves in the new scene and understand its dynamics. Their collective experiences, drawn from receiving music lessons, managing and contributing to the experimental music label àNoise, and organizing music events, are bringing them a profound understanding of the specific challenges and opportunities participants in this program face as they seek to contribute to the scene and interact with other artists. Building on this foundation, Soheil Soheili shares his expertise as the manager and co-founder of àNoise, offering insights into sustaining independent music initiatives, supporting diverse performers, and fostering international collaborations. In parallel, Niki Yaghmaee contributes his direct experience in the local music scene, with practical knowledge of DIY self-promotion, identifying opportunities, finding collaborators, and organizing events, as well as essential musical skills like improvisation and active listening. Sharing both similar and distinct experiences and viewpoints, and having successfully collaborated on music releases through àNoise (c. 2019), they offer a comprehensive approach and different strategies for artists who want to travel to establish their activity in Germany.
Programm:
Monday 06/10 11:00-14:00: Knowing each other – Artist Bio – Your Landing Page
Wednesday 8/10 11:00-14:00: Networking strategies, identifying collaborators & support systems
Thursday 9/10 11:00-14:00: Publishing music independently
Friday 10/10 11:00-17:00: Understanding and Engaging with the Berlin Music Ecosystem
Monday 13/10 11:00-14:00: Technical Foundations for Contributing and Thriving
Address: Studio DB, Uferstraße 8-11, 13357 Berlin
Tuesday 14/10 11:00-14:00 GEMA and KSK for beginners
Wednesday 15/10 11:00-14:00 Guided Improvised Jamming Session for all levels & Crisis Management after the theoretical class session
Guided Improvised Jamming Session for all levels and with whatever instruments a PAS Berlin.
Address: First Floor, HH Aufgang II, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 101, 10553 Berlin.
Friday 17/10 11:00: Consultation day
Venue: Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin Career College / Zentralinstitut für Weiterbildung, Bundesallee 1-12, D-10719 Berlin, room 341
Please apply with CV and portfolio until 29 September 2025.
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CV
Soheil Soheili is a Berlin-based Iranian multimedia artist, event organizer, translator, and sound collector. As co-founder and manager of àNoise, an experimental electronic music label operating between Iran and Germany, he has supported independent initiatives, diverse performers, and international collaborations. A recipient of the Martin Roth Initiative scholarship, he draws on his background in Sound Theory translation and extensive post-production work to share practical skills and insights with artists. His practice emphasizes high-quality sound, archiving, and community-building across intercultural contexts.
Niki Yaghmaee is a Berlin-based Iranian multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music producer. Classically trained in viola and violin, his musical journey evolved to embrace experimental contexts, alternative hip-hop, electroacoustic production, and sound design. As co-founder of Duos Duet, he blends cinematic, classical, and Iranian influences in international performances. Supported by a Berlin Senate Scholarship, Niki brings deep insight into navigating the Berlin music scene and practical expertise in DIY self-promotion, community-building through improvisation, and collaboration. In 2025, he founded Borderless Creatures, a Berlin-based collective that actively organizes genre-free concerts focused on acoustic instruments and transcultural exchange, further demonstrating his commitment to fostering a vibrant local scene. He maintains strong technical expertise in audio production and creative content development, applying it across interdisciplinary and commercial projects.
ARTIST TRAINING is a consulting and further education program at the Berlin University of the Arts for artists at risk. The aims are to network in the cultural and creative industries as well as in the UdK Berlin, to qualify for strategic positioning in the respective artistic field and to provide advice on further professional development. Since 2016, a total of 54 basic and in-depth courses have offered information and contacts to over 800 participants from the following sectors Music, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film and initially also Cultural Journalism. 2020 - 21 Educational films, workshops, excursions and advice on basic topics were offered at three other locations (Babelsberg, Hamburg, Hanover). Parallel to this, series of events and podcasts on institutional transformation processes were created.
The project Access Art Schools Berlin in cooperation with the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch is funded from April to December 2025 by special funds for participation for refugees, Senate Department Berlin.
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