Mehdi Hosseini

Mehdi Hosseini (Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami) was born in 1979 in Tehran, Iran. Hosseini began his musical training in Iran, studying Persian music and the fundamentals of composition under the guidance of Farhad Fakhreddini, renowned Iranian composer and founder of Iran’s National Orchestra. Following his studies in Iran, Hosseini finished his Master’s degree at the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory under Professor Alexander Minatsakanian, a pupil of Shostakovich, and his Doctor of Music degree (DMA) in Composition with composer, Sergei Slonimsky.
In addition, Hosseini completed a composition course from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, in the summer of 2007 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria where he studied with British composer and pedagogue, Nigel Osborne. He studied fundamental principles of musical composition with composers Gennady Belov and Vladimir Tsitovich and worked on problems of music theory under the direction of Professor Tatiana Bershadskaya.