Soudabeh Samiei is a musician and researcher working between Iranian classical music, santur performance, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Her practice connects artistic performance with critical inquiry into migration, memory, and the cultural lives of music. She studied musicology and Iranian classical music with a focus on santur, bringing together academic research and embodied musical knowledge.

Her work engages with how musical traditions travel, transform, and become part of postmigrant cultural landscapes. As a performer, Samiei contributes the resonant sound of the santur to collective musical settings. In the context of Korsi, her work opens a space where classical Iranian musical heritage can be heard not as something fixed, but as a living practice shaped by movement, dialogue, and contemporary diasporic experience.