TEHRAN -- Acclaimed Iranian composer Shahrdad Rohani is planning to give a concert in Tehran in late May.

Rohani will be performing his new compositions, playing the piano himself, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Friday.
A fifteen-year old cellist is scheduled to accompany the group and will be performing several pieces by famous musicians including a piece by German composer Felix Mendelssohn, it added
The recently-released album of Rohani contains all his compositions over the past 30 years. The pieces are performed by Slovakia Symphony Orchestra under the supervision of Rohani himself.
Rohani’s last concert was at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall in 2003.
Shahrdad Rohani is best known for arranging and conducting the Yanni Live at the Acropolis Concert, an open-air concert with the London Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra in the Parthenon, Athens, Greece.
Rohani is the music director and conductor of the COTA symphony orchestra in Los Angeles. He has appeared as a guest conductor to a number of prestigious orchestras including the London Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, San Diego symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Zagreb Philharmonic and the American Youth Symphony, among others.
In 1998, Rohani was commissioned by the Thai government and the 13th Asian Olympic Games committee to compose and conduct music pieces for the inaugural ceremonies. His work became the most popular song of the Asian Games.