Mehdi Hosseini http://www.mehdihosseini.net Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:02:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The world premiere of composer Mehdi Hosseini’s composition “Monodies” http://www.mehdihosseini.net/the-world-premiere-of-composer-mehdi-hosseini%e2%80%99s-composition-%e2%80%9cmonodies%e2%80%9d/ http://www.mehdihosseini.net/the-world-premiere-of-composer-mehdi-hosseini%e2%80%99s-composition-%e2%80%9cmonodies%e2%80%9d/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:45:35 +0000 admin http://www.mehdihosseini.net/?p=233 Latest News… 

 The world premiere of composer Mehdi Hosseini’s composition “Monodies” 

The world premiere of composer Mehdi Hosseini’s composition “Monodies”

The world premiere of  “Monodies” will take place on the 21st November as part of the opening day of the 23rd Annual International New Music Festival “Sound Ways”, in the Glinka Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. The work will be performed by the Sound Ways New Music Ensemble…

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Payvand Iran News …

On the 1st of October 2011 on the International Day of Music in St. Petersburg, Russia, the music of Iranian composer Mehdi Hosseni will be performed. His Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra will be conducted by Igor Ponomarenko (Russia). This work of Hosseni was composed in 2008 and is based on the regional Iranian music “Torbat-e Jam.” The world premier of this work took place in 2010 under the direction of Brad Cawyer (USA), conducting the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

 

 

Listen to a fragment of Hosseini’s Concerto:

Copyright @ Arghanoon Record

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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By Kremena Krumova
Epoch Times Staff

Music that will take you to the driest places of Iran; that will unveil for you the mysticism of ancient Persia; and that  will broaden your cultural perspective to the limit—this is what the latest “Concerto for Baluch” by composer Mehdi Hosseini aspires to do.

The Association for Contemporary Music of the St. Petersburg Composers Union will present “Concerto for Baluch (for six instruments)” composed by the Iranian-born composer Mehdi Hosseini. The six instruments of the composition are alto flute, contrabassoon, horn, xylophone, violin, and violoncello.

The world premiere of the Concerto, which will be staged on June 11 in St. Petersburg, is inspired by Persian folk music. It will endeavor to uplift the audience’s souls and “create an atmosphere of openness to the plight of others.”

The music will be performed by selected soloists from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Brad Cawyer, an American musician currently establishing a career in Russia, will be the conductor.

“My composition was selected for inclusion in this program by Association Director Georgy Firtich. Through this performance, he hopes to foster cultural understanding,” composer Mehdi Hosseini shared with The Epoch Times.  Read More»

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External Links:

Interview with Mehdi Hosseini, Epoch Times – New York
Великая Эпоха ( The Epoch Times )
KULTUR: Interview, 17-23. Juni 2009. Nr. 22

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Payvand Iran News …

«Pause» by Iranian composer Mehdi Hosseini will be performed at the opening concert of the 22th Sound Ways Festival of New Music on the 21st of November at St-Petersburg State Philharmonic Hall. This work explores the topic of «Chekhov’s Silent Dramaturgy», in accordance with the opening concert programme being dedicated to Chekhov’s 150th anniversary.

Hosseini’s work will be performed by the Sound Ways ensemble conducted by B.E.Cawyer. Works by Mehdi Hosseini are often performed during various St.-Petersburg festivals, e.g. «St.Petersburg Musical Spring», «Contemporary East and West», «A Reverse Perspective», «St.Petersburg Renaissance», «Trajectories of Petersburg Avantgarde», «Contemporary Past», including the Sound Ways Festival. You can hear his music performed by such orchestras as the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Academic Symphony Orchestra. A number of his works have been published by Compozitor St. Petersburg. 

The composer Mehdi Hosseini was born in Tehran in 1979. He has studied musical composition with such masters as Farhad Fhreddini, Alexander Mnatsakanyan, Nigel Osborne and Sergei Slonimsky. Mehdi Hosseini earned a PhD in composition at St. Petersburg State Conservatory… Read More»»


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When:

Thursday, Nov 11, 2010
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Where:
The St. Petersburg

State Conservatory
Teatralnaya square
Saint-Petersburg, 190000, Russia

A  PIANO WORK BY MEHDI HOSSEINI

Performance by Ivan Alexanrdov

Chahargah is one of the seven Dastgāhs of Persian Music (Classically, Persian Music is organized into seven Dastgāhs and five Āvāzes, however from a merely technical point of view; one can consider them as an ensemble of 12 Dastgāhs).  Chahargah is one numeral higher than the segah. Although these two dastgah are related in name as well as through several of thier gusheh-ha their scales are quite dissimlar. The distinctive scale of Chahargah contains two identical tetrachord.  Chahargah, like Mahur, is one of the happier dastgah of Persian music.

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Sunday, June 27, 2010

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Where:

Saint-Petersburg Philharmonia (Glinka Hall)
Nevsky Avenue 20
Saint Petersburg, 191011,
Russia

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On 23 and 27 June II International music festival “Contemporary past” will be held in St. Petersburg state philharmonic hall where 2 pieces by Iranian composer Mehdi Hosseini will be represented.

On 23 June the famous St. Petersburg pianist Alexey Glazkov will play for the first time Chahargah along with music by other guest composers at the festival which this year is dedicated to American Music, a XX century. This festival will be held by Art-Modern foundation whose artistic director is Albert Barbeta.

On 27 June another premiere opus by Mehdi Hosseini based on Unfinished draft, a poem by Vladimir Nabokov, will be performed by Avant-garde and wind quintet of Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Alexis Soriano (Spain).

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When:

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Where:

Saint-Petersburg Philharmonia (Glinka Hall)
Nevsky Avenue 20
Saint Petersburg, 191011,
Russia

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On 23 and 27 June II International music festival “Contemporary past” will be held in St. Petersburg state philharmonic hall where 2 pieces by Iranian composer Mehdi Hosseini will be represented.

On 23 June the famous St. Petersburg pianist Alexey Glazkov will play for the first time Chahargah along with music by other guest composers at the festival which this year is dedicated to American Music, a XX century. This festival will be held by Art-Modern foundation whose artistic director is Albert Barbeta. Read More»»
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The World premiere of Concerto for String Quartet and Chamber Orchestra by Mehdi Hosseini, will be performed on 22 May 2010 in the State Saint-Petersburg State Philharmonia hall by Symphony Orchestra of the Saint-Petersburg State Philharmonic and is to be conducted by Brad Cawyer, an American conductor based in Saint Petersburg.

The world premiere of this concerto, which utilizes folk music material from the area surrounding the ancient city of Torbat-e Jam in Iran, is dedicated to Nigel Osborne, mentor to Hosseini. Following the performance, the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Orchestra will be recording for Hosseini’s next compact disk, which will include the Concerto for String Quartet and will be issued in Iran.

The score for the concerto has been chosen for publishing by Kompozitor Publishing House in St. Petersburg, the oldest publishing house for music literature in Russia.

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When:

Saturday, May 15, 2010

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Where:

St.Petersburg Composers Union
45 St.Bolshaya Morskaya
Saint Petersburg, 190000,
Russia

Iranian composer Mehdi Hosseini will present his Terio “Peshtpa” in 45th international music festival “ST. PETERSBURG MUSICAL SPRING”.

The Peshtpa by Mehdi Hosseini was completed in 2009. It is based on Kurdish Music. The work is scored for Oboe, Bass Clarinet, and Violoncello. The Trio presented first time at the International Conference A REVERSE PERSPECTIVE which was included on a program that is dedicated to the anniversaries of the births of Pushkin (210 years), Gogol (200 years), and Futurism (100 years).

The Peshtpa is a dance tune from Kurdistan. Cyclic dances and chain dances are the two most important categories to which Kurdish dances are classified. In both of them maghams are played in sequence in a defined order, usually from slow movements to rapid ones. The major center of these dances is Sanandaj and its peripheries. Pehstpa as a cyclic dance begins after Garyan and has slightly faster movements. In this type of dance the feet hit to the back of leg, hence the term Peshtpa which means “behind the leg”.

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When:

Thursday, Apr 8, 2010

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Where:

The St. Petersburg State Conservatory
Teatralnaya square
город Санкт-Петербург, 190000,
Russia

Description:

On the 8th of April, 2010 at the Chamber hall of Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory the “Taleshi Hava” which scored for Violin and Bassoon will be performed on a program that is dedicated to the memory of Italian composer “Luigi Nono”.

This composition work of Iranian composer Mehdi Hosseini was written in 2010, uses music of the north-western Iranian Talishi people. Read More»»

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* This composition  has been recorded on the 9th of April 2010 by Raisa Ulumbekova (violin) and Konstantin Yakovlev (bassoon) in Saint-Petersburg.

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