Sohrab Bazargannia is a percussionist who regularly performs with many of Northern California’s major arts organizations. He has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, Oakland Symphony, Monterey Symphony, Stockton Symphony, Pacific Chamber Orchestra, Marin Baroque Orchestra, Festival Orchestra Napa, Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra, United States Air Force Band of the Golden West, and several more. He has also appeared as guest Principal Percussionist with the California Symphony and the Marin Symphony. Having performed in the premieres of countless symphonic, chamber, and wind ensemble repertoire, Sohrab has collaborated with composers such as Julia Wolfe, Mason Bates, Gabriela Lena Frank, Angélica Negrón, and Brian Raphael Nabors. Internationally, he has performed and recorded throughout Europe with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, including concerts at the Royal Concertgebouw, Berliner Philharmonie, Smetana Hall, Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, Sala Verdi Milano, and Stadttheater Ingolstadt. Sohrab is an alumnus of Diablo Valley College where he studied with Ken Bergmann and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studied with Jack Van Geem, Jake Nissly, Trey Wyatt, and Ed Stephan. He has also studied extensively with Raymond Froehlich and Ty Gale.