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Atefeh Einali (*1990) is a santoor player and composer. She studied at the Art University of Tehran, currently lives in Manchester where she is doing her Ph.D. in music composition at the University of Manchester.  Atefeh is continuing work on her Collaborative Opera Lab, a research project funded by Arts Council England at the moment. This project focuses on the research and development phase of her first opera. She has also worked closely with performers at the Intimacy of Creativity Festival at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Also, she worked with composers and conductors, with various commissions such as Southbank Symphony Orchestra, Coma London, Symphony Verbum Orchestra, Bridges orchestra (Frankfurt), Migrant voices residency programme by Olympias Music Foundation, the Psappha Composing for Sitar scheme, International Guitar Foundation (IGF) and IFCA (Iranian female composers association). Furthermore, she worked as the Associate composer in non-classical composition scheme project. Also, creative process of her composition was portrayed in the online edition of Audiograft - Oxford's annual festival of experimental music and sound art. Besides of that festival the sketch and process of her piece "I am from nowhere" was released by Toward sounds online exhibition and Deutschlandfunk radio in Berlin, Germany. Recently, she was commissioned to write for the BBC Philarmonic ensemble for the Manchester Histories Festival. 

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Her research is about how to create practices of cross-cultural collaboration for use in compositional methodologies. So, one of her pieces has been chosen for publication in volume 23 of Women and music: A Journal of Gender and Culture (WAM Journal), the USA. Also, she was one of the winners in SIMF (ACIMIC= The Association of Iranian Contemporary Music Composers) competition in France in November 2018.