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Biography
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Mehdi
Hosseini
(*1979) is
an Iranian composer of contemporary classical music.
He studied composition at the St. Petersburg
State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory.
In
2013, he has got the award “The Best Academic Music Album of the Year” from the
Iranian House of Music for the album “Monodies“.
His
music and style has demonstrated his creative capabilities as a composer and
his research abilities as a ethnomusicologist and theorist. Hosseini has
written symphonic music and chamber orchestra pieces for ensembles and soloists
in various compositional genres.
In
the last few years, Mehdi Hosseini has been actively participating in
contemporary music projects local to St. Petersburg, the “Cultural Capital of
Russia.” His music is regularly performed in such festivals as Sound Ways, St.
Petersburg Musical Spring, Contemporary East and West, Contemporary Past and
others.
His
music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles such as the St. Petersburg
State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg State Academic
Symphony Orchestra, Studio for New Music Ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music
Ensemble and more. His music is played in Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg
Conservatory, Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, etc. Works of Hosseini have been published by the
Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg.
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