Mehdi Hosseini

Mehdi Hosseini (2009)

Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami (Persian: سید مهدی حسینی بمی; *  July 1979 in Tehran ) is an Iranian composer and musicologist .

Mehdi Hosseini (Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami) was born in Tehran in 1979. He began his musical training in Iran, where he studied the theory of Persian music and composition under the direction of Farhad Fakhreddini. M. Hosseini later graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with a major in composition under the direction of the music professor Alexander Mnazakanjan and continued his studies as a doctoral student under the direction of the composer Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimski , as well as in musicology under the direction of the music professor Tatiana Berschadskaja. Hosseini also studied composition with music professor Nigel Osborne .

Hosseini shows himself both in his musical work, in which he composes the music in very different genres, as well as in the research of the wonderful and astonishingly diverse folk music of different provinces of Persia. As a musician-theorist, Hosseini pays a lot of attention to learning the essence and structure of the most important phenomena in oriental music, including the traditional Persian modal music system, dastgah .

In 2011 Mehdi Hosseini founded the Saint Petersburg Center for Contemporary Music, which is promoting the new academic music in Russia, including Saint Petersburg. In 2013, on his initiative, the St. Petersburg international festival of new music "reMusik.org" was founded. In 2013 he was awarded the prize “Best Music Album of the Year in Academic Music” by the Iranian Music House for his music album “Monodies”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Deutschlandradio" '
2. ↑ "VI Санкт-Петербургский международный фестиваль новой музыки reMusik.org" Коммерсантъ. 29 апреля 2019.

Web links

• Website of Mehdi Hosseini (engl.)
• Epoch Times Deutschland: Ancient Persian Music in Russia , June 21, 2009
• New music from Iranians