Majid Amani is a classical guitarist, dotar player, composer, educator, and scholar based in Sydney, Australia. He began playing the dotar, a traditional Iranian instrument, at the age of five, and later took up the classical guitar as his principal instrument. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from the University of Tehran, a master’s degree in Performance from the University of Arts, Tehran, and a Doctor of Musical Arts (Performance) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Sydney (2022). He is a first-prize winner of the Tehran Guitar Competition (2006), a former research assistant at the Iranian Academy of Arts (2014–2018), a former teacher at the Tehran Conservatory of Music (2015–2018), and a recipient of the Henderson Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the University of Sydney (2018–2021).

Majid studied guitar with Hamid Navayi, Simon Ayvazian, Keyvan Mirhadi, Alireza Tafaghodi, Mehrdad Pakbaz, and Vladimir Gorbach. He has also participated in masterclasses with notable guitarists such as Walter Würdinger, the late Lily Afshar, and András Csáki.
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Majid has presented numerous solo recitals and collaborated with a wide range of ensembles and performers in Iran and Australia as both a guitarist and dotar player. He has performed at venues including the Tehran Evangelical Church, the Austrian Cultural Centre in Tehran, the Iranian Artists Forum, Rudaki Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Alfa Gallery, and Willoughby Uniting Church, among others. He has collaborated with ensembles such as the University of Tehran Guitar Orchestra (as soloist and composer), the Tehran Guitar Quartet (as founder and composer), the Pedram Falsafi Ensemble, and the PostgRadical Ensemble. As his most recent project, Majid has formed a duo with pianist Jacquelyn Koh, focusing on original works from the Golden Age of the classical guitar by early Romantic European composers.

As a performer-composer, Majid is also deeply committed to bringing new works to life. He has long championed the music of Iranian composer Mehrdad Pakbaz and has premiered multiple works by Iranian-Australian composer Shervin Mirzeinali, including the opera Panbe-Zan, which won the 2022 APRA AMCOS Work of the Year (Dramatic). His own works include pieces for solo guitar and chamber ensembles, such as Twelve Preludes for solo guitar, Invention for violin and guitar, Le Yarei for flute and guitar, and a string quartet. He has also composed and performed music for Iranian theatre productions.

Majid is currently a casual academic at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he teaches and undertakes research in collaboration with notable Australian scholars such as Dr Lu Liu and Dr Alex Chilvers. His research publications focus primarily on contemporary Persian music and classical guitar. He is also an accredited member of the Music Teachers’ Association of NSW.