Category: music
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Strings quartet No. 3 (Nabd)
Strings quartet No. 3 (Nabd) (2025)For string quartet – ca. 10Comissioned by VIPA Festival 2025, five-movement work that delves into the rich tradition of funerary laments sung by Druze women in Mount Lebanon. This piece is a deeply personal elegy, written in memory of my father, “Abou Samra”, who passed away earlier this year. The…
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Yè dawaèl adwaa
For English horn, Guitar, Piano, Percussion, Female voice, and Cello – ca. 6′On a text by Hala Nohra.Comissioned by precept.concept.percept residency program. Premiered as part of Teden sodobne glasbe Bled / Bled Contemporary Music Week. The premiere took place on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in the beautiful city of Bled, Slovenia! The concert was streamed…
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TWO SEAS [بَحْرَيْن]
Pianists: Betty Salkhanian Kurtian & Zeina Alam Filming Zeinab Mawassi Video Wajdi Abou Diab Recorded at USEK – Kaslik Two Seas is a piece for a Piano duet (four hands on one Piano), inspired by the traditional music of Arabic golf, precisely the Fjery music of the kingdom of Bahrain, music used to be sung…
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KAMANJA [كَمَنْجَة] FEAT. KLK STRING ORCHESTRA
KAMANJA [كَمَنْجَة] For Solo Violin and String Orchestra KLK String orchestra Solo Violin : Mykola Haviuk Conductor : Roman Kreslenko Philharmonia Lviv, Concert Hall, Lviv, Ukraine 18 June 2024 Happy to share that my piece “Kamanja” for violin and string orchestra has been selected for the finals of the International Composition Competition “Musica per archi…
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Sävellyspaja 2024, Finland
TIBAA [طِباعْ] for 10 instruments Premiered by AVANTI! CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor by Jukka Rantamäki Sävellyspaja 2024 Provo, Finland Sävellyspaja 2024 Composition Masterclass had a record number of 85 applications this year, and I was lucky to know that my application was successful, and I was selected to participate in the International Sävellyspaja Composition Masterclass 2024!…
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ZEJEL [زَجَلْ] FOR VIOLIN AND CELLO – WITH RED CEDAR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
ZEJEL [زَجَلْ] For Violin & CelloCommissioned by Red Cedar Chamber Music ensemblePremiered on April 28, 2024United Congregational Church, Iowa CityMiera Kim, ViolinCarey Bostian, CelloPeter Nothnagle, Sound Engineer Inspired by the Lebanese Zèjèl (زَجَل) which is a semi-improvised, semi-sung, or declaimed form of poetry in the colloquial Lebanese Arabic dialect. Zèjèl has close ties in prosody,…
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Wadih El Safi – The Songwriter
This book, “Wadih Al-Safi – The Composer,” presents for the first time a collection of special melodies by the great Wadih Al-Safi in a purely instrumental form, and makes them accessible to musicians with a classical background, specifically through arrangements for the piano (with the participation of the oud) that allow musicians to taste the…
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Let’s talk Arabic! | New Bassoon consortium
Consortium Details Piece name: Let’s talk Arabic!Length: approximately 12 minutesPerforming forces: bassoon and pianoDifficulty level: High school levelScore delivery date: September 1, 2024Premiere window: 1.9.2024 – 1.9.2025Deadline to join: The consortium is closed nowPricing Tiers:– $200 Professional (include 2 students’ score, and 20$ for each extra student’s score)– $50 StudentMain commissioner: Angela Salvaggione.Professional commissioner: Tyne…
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STRING QUARTET NO. 2 [AL-AWAZEL العواذل]
Performed as part of the Du Vert à l’infini Music Festival, 9 July 2023, Église de Lavoncourt, Franche-Comté, France. Kami Ghavi-Helm (Violin) Ava Shadmani (Violin) Damon Taheri (Viola) Katarina Leskovar (Cello) Al-Awazil (العواذل) is a string quartet of Two movements that follow the form of traditional Arabic Waslah (وصلة), which is a typical Arabic traditional…
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EAMA – Paris 2023
Since 1995, through its Summer Music Institute in Paris and Music Academy throughout the year, EAMA has inspired musicians through intensive training of the musical crafts. Inspired by the teaching philosophy of Nadia Boulanger, EAMA has challenged generations of musicians to seek their unique musical voice. Our intensive musical training offers a method to guide musicians throughout…
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