Mansoor Hosseini is artistic director of Themus Ensemble and he composes theatrical music pieces for them. He studied percussion in Sweden, with Thomas Fristedt and Bo Holmstrand, at the Gothenburg Music Conservatory. Later, he went to Paris and studied composition with Phillipe Capdenat at Conservatoire Nadia & Lili Boulanger, and with Professor Yoshihisa Taïra at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. Hosseini joined the theory classes of Raphael D'Haene and computer-music classes of Peter Swinnen at the Royal Music Conservatory of Brussels. His final composition courses were at the Gothenburg Music Conservatory, with Carl-Axel Hall.
Studies and researches in Musical theater with George Aperghis, contemporary dance with Tero Saarinen and Martial Arts have influenced his theatrical music and dance compositions. His Kung-Fu practices have given him motives for the choreographies he created, both for musicians and dancers. Some of these creations were realized in participation with the contemporary music / theater ensemble, Arte Vivain Paris under the direction of Pascal Pistone. (www.musicalmo.com).
Mansoor’s compositions have been performed in various music and theatre festivals in USA, France, Germany, Serbia, Sweden, Norway and other countries. He is musical director of THEMUS, an international musical theatre festival, which will have premier march 2008 in Gothenburg.
