will present his work Peshtpa, utilizing Kurdish folk material, at St. Petersburg's Concert Hall on Canal Moika on October 21.
The composition, scored for Oboe, Bass Clarinet, and Violoncello, is included on a program that is dedicated to the anniversaries of the famous Russian writers Pushkin and Gogol.
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will display music of the St. Petersburg school of composition.
At this concert, Hosseini joins renowned composers Sergei Slonimsky and Georgii Furtich in opening an international scholarly conference entitled Russian Classical Literature in the Context of Modernism.
A REVERSE PERSPECTIVE: Russian Classical Literature in the Mirror of Modernity:
Dedicated to the anniversaries of the births of Pushkin (210 years), Gogol (200 years), and Futurism (100 years).
The conference will explore two main themes: a) Trends in classical Russian literature that foreshadow seminal developments in modernist literature, music, performing and visual arts. b) Reverberations of the Russian classics in the period of modernism and post-modernism.
Conference covers a wide spectrum of classical Russian literature, with a particular focus given to the work of Alexander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol in context of modern art, including literature, visual arts and music.
Participants - scholars on the fields of literary studies, theatre, art history and musicology, from different cities of Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Finland, USA.
The conference will be complimented by a concert of contemporary music "Composers and Musicians of St. Petersburg School" - that will take place at 7PM on October 21.
Composers Sergey Slonimski, Georgi Firtich, Sergey Oskolkov,
Mehdi Hosseini (Iran), Valeria Sveshnikova, Nastasia Khruscheva will present their works.
