Daryoush Pirniakan was born in 1955 in East Azerbaijan and began to study music when he was 12. His first teacher was Mohammad Hasan Ozari. Soon he was honored when the great music master, Ali-Akbar Khan Shahnazi accepted him as his pupil and taught him the radif of Mirza Hoseyn-Qoli and his own advanced level course of radif. Meanwhile he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran University. There he befriended with Dr. Daryush Safvat and soon he made his way to the famous Center for Preservation and Propagation of Persian Classical Music headed by Safvat himself. At the Center he benefited from great music masters like Yusef Forutan, Saeed Hormozi, and Mahmud Karimi. After graduating from university he continued to work and teach at the Center.