Amir Teymuri studied composition, piano and music informatics at the University of Tehran, the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and at the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. In 2004, he was honored at the First National Biennial of New Music at the University of Tehran. In 2015, he was a fellow of the Akademie der Künste (AdK Berlin) and artist-in-residence at the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U Berlin). In addition to his work as a freelance composer, he is currently a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich and at the Institute for Music Informatics in Karlsruhe.