An Iranian Oud player and composer, Saeid Nayeb Mohammadi was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1978. He graduated from the Tehran Music Conservatory and the Sooreh University of Music. Saeid learned Iranian style of Oud playing and canonical repertoire of classical Iranian music (radif), respectively from Hossein Behroozinia and Arshad Tahmasbi. In addition to apprenticeships with these great Iranian masters, he also studied the Iraqi style of Oud performance with Salem Abd-ol-Karim, a prominent figure among the leading contemporary Oud virtuosos in the world.
Saeid Nayeb Mohammdi has been an active musician and composer of classical Iranian Music since 2002. Since then to date, he has been the founder and leader of the Fih e Mâ Fih Ensemble. Saeid released some 10 independent albums (both as composer and performer) and functioned as an Oud soloist and accompanist in numerous albums of classical Iranian music composed by established musicians of various generations. He has performed in a great number of concerts and festivals across different countries such as France, Germany, Spain, Romania, Tunisia, India, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Oman together with a great number of performances all around Iran, accompanying some of the most distinguished masters of Iranian music such as the internationally acclaimed virtuoso, maestro Shahram Nazeri. In 2016 he was granted a Certificate of Appreciation from the Barbad Music Prize Jury, for his album “Rey to Roume”. In 2013 he won the Grand Prize of the Third International Mugham Festival, with Nasim-e Ṭarab Ensemble. Saeid worked as a referee of 9 rounds of the National Festival of the Youth Music in Iran (2013-2021). In 2017, he was a member of the Artistic Committee of the Iranian Classical Music Festival, and between 2006- 2007, he worked as an Oud Teacher in the Sooreh Conservatory of Iranian Music, where he did a BA in Music. He is one of the well-known musicians of an aesthetic movement in classical Iranian music, aiming to enhance creative potentials of this music tradition inspired by historical pieces of evidence about pre-modern style of music-making in Iran as well as neighbouring traditions namely Turkish, Arab, and Central Asian musical cultures which share a common ancient heritage.