Nima Alizadeh, born in Tehran in 1983, has a degree in photography. He began his musical training as a child with percussion and piano, and from early on chose tar as his main instrument. He studied rhythm and percussion with Dariush Zargari, Pejman Hadadi, and Swapan Chaudhuri. He received his basic and intermediate levels of training on the tar with Fariborz Azizi and continued his advanced levels of training with his father, Hossein Alizadeh. In 2005, he became a member of the Hamavayan Ensemble, playing stringed instruments, including the robab. He has appeared with the Hamnavayan Ensemble in Iran and abroad and performed on numerous music recordings andsoundtracks.

He and Bahareh began working together while she was in Iran. In his first time working with a choreographer and creating music in relationship with movement, he collaborated with Bahareh to create Yek Rooz (One Day) which premiered in Invertigo's February 2008 show Leap Year Waltzes, etc. He loved working with Bahareh and Invertigo Dance Theatre, and hopes to do so again in the future.