Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami (born July 10, 1979; Persian: سید مهدی حسینی بمی) is a

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Biography

Hosseini was born in

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, Iran, and received his master's degree and Doctor of Music degree (DMA) in Composition from

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, named after N. A.

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. His major teachers include

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, Prof. Alexander Minatsakanian, Prof.

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and Prof.

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in composition, and Professor

Tatiana Bershadskaya Tatiana Sergeevna Bershadskaya (4 July 1921 – 8 May 2021, Russian: Бершадская Татьяна Сергеевна) was a Russian musicologist, music theorist, doctor of arts and professor of the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory. ...

in Musicology. His early musical experiences included from 1998–2001, where he studying music theory,

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and composition with Farhad Fakhreddini in

. Hosseini then entered the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory in 2001 where he under the guidance of Prof. Tatiana Bershadskaya studied musicology and composition with Prof. Mnatsakanian and continued postgraduate course with the composer Sergei Slonimsky. Mehdi Hosseini completed a composition course from the

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in 2007 during the summer courses at

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where he studied with Nigel Osborne. Hosseini’s compositions include works for large orchestra, chamber orchestra, and various ensembles and has been performed and recorded by orchestras and ensembles such as the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the

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, Symphony Orchestra of the Opera and Ballet Theatre of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory, North-Ossetian State Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble intercontemporain, Namascae, Lemanic Modern Ensemble, PluralEnsemble, Ensemble Proton Bern, Studio for New Music Ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, GAMEnsemble and more. His works have been published by the Compozitor Publishing House (Russia), and Donemus (Netherlands). In the last few years, He was the focus of attention in

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as a composer. and his works are performed during such festivals as St. Petersburg Musical Spring, Contemporary East and West, Contemporary Past, A Reverse Perspective, Trajectories of Petersburg Avant-Garde, Sound Ways, Moscow Autumn, Moscow Actual Music Festival “Another Space” and others. His music is played in

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, Saint Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories, Saint Petersburg and Moscow Philharmonics. Mehdi Hosseini made an invaluable contribution to the development of the St. Petersburg cultural scene in 2011 when he opened the Saint Petersburg Contemporary Music Center “reMusik.org” and in 2013, he founded the St. Petersburg International New Music Festival. "City Alive with the Sound of reMusik.org"
''The St. Petersburg Times. May 22, 2013 (Issue # 1760)''

Compositions

Mehdi Hosseini with the Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra at the 4th Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival

* '' Symphony of Monody'' (2005); * Concerto for String Quartet and Chamber Orchestra (2008) * '' The Baluch'' (2009), for alto flute, contrabassoon, horn, xylophone, violin and cello * '' Peshtpa'' (2009), for oboe, Bass clarinet and violoncello * '' Taleshi Hava'' (2010), for solo violin and bassoon * ''An Unfinished Draft'' (2010), for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and baritone * ''Pause'' (2010), for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and tubular bells * ''Monodies'' (2011), for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and violoncello * ''Hesar'' (2013), for symphony orchestra * ''Abkenari'' (2013), for flute, clarinet, violin and cello * ''Sarbang'' (2014), for flute, oboe, clarinet (Bb), trombone, piano, percussions, violin, viola and cello * ''Marsiehâ-ye Khâk'' (2014), for Symphony Orchestra * ''Inertia'' (2014), for clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, violin and cello * ''Sârukhâni'' (2016), for ensemble * ''Ctesiphon'' (2024), for cello

Awards

* Best Classical Album of the Year (2013), From Iranian House of Music

Footnotes

References

The Moscow Times The Tehran Times The Saint-Petersburg Times

External links

Mehdi Hosseini
official site (monodies.com)
Interview with Mehdi Hosseini, The St.Petersburg Times
August 15, 2012 (Issue # 1722).
Interview with Mehdi Hosseini, ON – Neue Musik Köln, February 2021 Compozitor Publishing House - Russia Donemus Publishing - Netherlands