Sound Designer
A Toronto-based sound designer with over a decade of experience between advertising, TV shows, video games and animated shorts. My passion for audio grows every day while I am always in search for new projects to collaborate on and areas to improve my craft. Having worn many hats I’m always looking for new challenges.
Canadian Screen Award 2026 Winner | Best Sound – Unicorn Academy Canadian Screen Award 2025 Nominee | Best Sound – Mighty Express
Composer
Mehrdad Jafari Raad is an award-winning Toronto-based composer for screen and games. His credits include Achilles, an internationally acclaimed feature film co-produced by Unité de Production and Basis Berlin Filmproduktion, which premiered at TIFF; Above Suspicion, a Peacock Alley Entertainment docuseries for Crave; the TELUS Originals Light Through the Blindfold and Constant Battle, featured at Hot Docs; Hatch with PK Studio Productions, which premiered at VIFF; Upcoming The River Will Carry Us, supported by Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch program; and Expo Pandemic, created through Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
His music has received two Leo Award nominations, an ISFA Best Original Score award, and Best Score at the Valdealgorfa International Short Film Festival. He holds a DMA in Composition from the University of Toronto and is a member of SOCAN, SCGC, and the Canadian Music Centre.
Sound Artist
Behrooz Parhizgar is a Toronto-based sound designer and audio producer with experience across AAA games, virtual reality, film, and interactive media. His credits include Far Cry 6 with Ubisoft Toronto, Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire with Schell Games, Hades’ Star: DARK NEBULA, and Zwift, along with several independent film productions.
He is also a Game Audio Instructor at Toronto Film School, where he teaches the next generation of game audio professionals. Passionate about creating immersive audio experiences, Behrooz combines technical expertise with creative storytelling to deliver memorable sound for games, film, and emerging interactive media.
Sound Artist
Kivanc Nadir is a sound designer with credits spanning Meta (via TEKsystems), Narcade, Yin Yang Games, and Paxie Games. He has held sound designer roles at Yin Yang Games and then Narcade, where he shipped ten mobile titles that crossed three million downloads combined.
He actively contributes to projects with Reçel Games, two-time first prize winners at game jams. Beatpunk!, their bullet-heaven roguelite, earned a spot in Steam Bullet-Heaven Fest and Steam Next Fest due to its unique concept of tying attack patterns to music.
Kivanc works fluently across FMOD, Wwise, and Unity, with Audiokinetic’s Wwise Fundamentals certification.
Composer
Hirad Moradi is a Composer and multi-instrumentalist creating genre-bending soundscapes that journey into the profound, cathartic emotions of the human experience.
Moradi’s works can be heard on screen in live-action and animated films, and in concert halls across North America and Europe. His concert works have been performed by prominent groups including Unheard-of//Ensemble, Dior Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Yale Philharmonic Orchestra and Mostly Modern Orchestra.
A kaleidoscopic blend of jazz, metal, folk, and electronic music over a classical foundation, Moradi’s voice is rooted in his Iranian-Canadian heritage and eclectic upbringing. To expand his collaborative practice, he co-founded the Yale-incubated ensemble Solaris, acting as composer-pianist to curate immersive musical experiences across NYC in spaces ranging from concert halls to warehouses, abandoned buildings, museums, and the outdoors.
At Cuenion, Moradi brings his genre-bending aesthetic to projects in film/TV, commercials, and games.
Founder & CEO
Recognized on CBC’s 30 Under 30 Classical Musicians as an emerging voice in contemporary music, Danial Sheibani is an Iranian-Canadian composer and the Founder of Cuenion. His screen work has been featured on Amazon Prime Video and Tubi, alongside concert works performed with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and premiered at landmark venues including Koerner Hall, Winspear Centre, Harbourfront Centre, and the Yale School of Music.
Danial founded Cuenion to revolutionize media scoring by bringing the bold creative risk-taking, sonic versatility, and compositional rigor of contemporary classical music directly into film/TV, gaming, and commercials. Under his direction, Cuenion weaves high-art with evocative storytelling to create bold, unforgettable soundscapes for new stories.