Artist
Vahid E. Hosseini
Composer, Setar Player, Researcher
Vahid E. Hosseini (b. 1984, Tehran) is a Berlin-based composer, conductor, setar player and researcher. He studied composition with Salvatore Sciarrino, Marco Stroppa, Gabriele Manca, Paolo Aralla, Alessandro Solbiati and Veli-Matti Puumala, with a masterclass by Tristan Murail, at the conservatories of Bologna (cum laude) and Milan, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Chigiana Academy in Siena and HMDK Stuttgart, and learned Persian classical music on the setar with Massoud Shaari and Hossein Alizadeh.
His works grow from the friction between his two musical formations, Persian and Western, and the paradoxes they pose today. They have been played by mdi ensemble, the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Fontanamix Ensemble, Zagros Ensemble and Versoi Ensemble, among others, at places such as the Venice Biennale, Ircam, the Helsinki Music Center and Sala Verdi in Milan. His awards include first prizes at the Premio Alberghini (2019) and the Premio Magone (2020) and third prize at the Premio Verdi (2022). From 2021 to 2023 he researched "sense and sensibility in working with systems" with the Orpheus Instituut in Ghent. A new album is to be released by Stradivarius.
