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Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami (Persian: سید مهدی حسینی بمی, born July 1979, Tehran) is a Persian contemporary composer and Musicologist.
Biography
Mehdi Hosseini was born in 1979 in Teheran. He started his musical education in Iran where under Farhad Fakhreddini he studied theory of Persian music and the foundations of composition. Later on Mr. Hosseini graduated from the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, where he completed composition studies under Professor Alexander Minatsakanian and went on to a postgraduate course with Professor Sergei Slonimsky. Additionally, under the guidance of Professor Tatiana Bershtadskaya he studyied the issues of music theory from the perspective of musicology. In addition to the above he studied composition under Professor Nigel Osborne [1] Hosseini was the focus of attention in Russia 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. His music has been performeded by Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra and the Saint-Petersburg State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.[2].
Music and style
M. Hosseini is revealing himself both as a composer, writing music in many genres, and a researcher, analyzing rich and strikingly diverse folk music of various Persian provinces. As a musician-theorist, Hosseini devotes much attention to studying the nature and structure of the most important phenomenon of Persian music – Maqām. M. Hosseini’s compositions vividly reveal his efforts as an ethnomusicologist. His String Quartet № 1 was composed on the basis of the Northern Khorasan music (city of Kuchan) and made use of the maqām Shakhatoai-Zaranji, the melody Guzal and the maqām Greili. He used the melody 'Khosrau and Shirin' from the folk music of Lorestan in his Symphony of Monody. His String Quartet № 2 is based on Bakhtiari music, and the 'Turkman Sonata' for Violin and Piano (with movements entitled 'Baglarkhey,' 'Dungorg,' and 'Tashnid') is based on the folk music of the Turkmen Sahra province. His Concerto for String Quartet and Chamber Orchestra (with a movement entitled 'Mashk paltan') was composed using folk music material of Torbatjam. [3][4][5]
Selected works
- The Varshan, Suite for string orchestra
- The Sangin Samã, for solo Clarinet , Based on folk music material of Lorestan
- String Quartet N.1, Based on folk music material of northern Khorasan
- Turkman Sonata, Sonata for Violin and Piano , Based on folk music material of Turkmen Sahra
- Symphony of Monody, orchestra, Based on folk music material of Lorestan
- String Quartet No. 2, Based on folk music material of Bakhtiari ISMN 979-0-66000-084-7
- Concerto for String Quartet and Chamber Orchestra, Based on folk music material of Torbatjam
- The Baluch, for Alto Flute, Contrabassoon, Horn, Xylophone, Violin and Violoncello , Based on folk music material of Sistan and Baluchestan
- The Hafz, Based on Hafez's Poem
- The Peshtpa, for Oboe, Bass Clarinet and Violon Cello, Based on folk Kurdish music
- Taleshi Hava, for Violin Solo and Bassoon, Based on folk music material of Talesh
- Chahargah, for Piano
- An Unfinished Draft, for Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin, Violoncello and Baritone. Based on Unfinished draft, a poem by Vladimir Nabokov
References
- Compozitor Publishing House of Saint-Petersburg presents Mehdi Hosseini's works
- Tehran Times
- Interview with Mehdi Hosseini, The Epoch Times, New York 2009.