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List Of Oud Players
This is a list of people notable for playing the oud: A *Mohammed Abdel Wahab * Rabih Abou-Khalil *Ahmed Abdul-Malik *Rahim AlHaj *Abdel Karim al Kabli *Khyam Allami *Tarek Abdallah B *Jamil Bachir *Munir Bashir * Omar Bashir *Hossein Behroozinia *John Bilezikjian * John Berberian * Waed Bouhassoun *Anouar Brahem *Sandy Bull *Roman Bunka *Yorgo Bacanos * Negar Bouban D * Fatemeh Deghani *Yair Dalal *Hamza El Din *Ara Dinkjian *Jo Dusepo E * Driss El Maloumi *Abdel Aziz El Mubarak F *Farid al-Atrash H * Richard Hagopian * Sakher Hattar J *Wissam Joubran K * Georges Kazazian * Tigrane Kazazian *Chris Karrer *Udi Hrant Kenkulian *Gülçin Yahya Kaçar L *Chris Leslie * David Lindley M *Aar Maanta * Hamdi Makhlouf *Daron Malakian * Jiim Sheikh Muumin * Omar Metioui * Mutref Al Mutref N *Hani Naser * Mansour Nariman Q *Abdullahi Qarshe S *Simon Shaheen *Naseer Shamma *Ali Sriti *Riad Al Sunbati T *Cinuçen Tanrıkorur *Joseph Tawadros *Omar Faruk Tekbilek * Zaidoon Treek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Abdel Wahab
''Mohamed Abdel Wahab'' ( ar, محمد عبد الوهاب), also transliteration, transliterated ''Mohamed Abd El-Wahhab'' (March 13, 1902 – May 4, 1991), was a prominent 20th-century Egyptian singer, actor, and composer. He is best known for his Romance (music), Romantic and Egyptian music, Egyptian patriotic songs. He was known for his Egyptian nationalism, Egyptian nationalist and revolutionary songs like "Ya Masr tam El-Hanna" (O Egypt, happiness is here), "Hay Ala El-Falah" (The call of duty), "Al Watan Al Akbar, El Watan El Akbar" (The Greatest Homeland), "Masr Nadetna falbena El-nedaa" (Egypt Called us and we Have Answered), "Oulo le Masr" (Tell Egypt), "Hob El-watan Fard Alyi" (Patriotism is my Obligation), "Sout El-Gamaheer" (Voice of the Masses), "Ya Nessmet El-Horria" (O The Breeze of Freedom), "Sawae'd men Beladi" (Compatriot Hands). He also composed the national anthem of Libya, Libya, Libya, Libya which was adopted from 1951 to 1969 and again since 2011. Life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorgo Bacanos
Yorgo Bacanos ( el, Γιώργος Μπατζανός, ; 21 September 1900 - 24 February 1977) was a master oud player and improvisational composer of Ottoman classical music. His father Haralambos (known as in Turkish) was of Greek Romani descent, and a legendary lavta and oud improviser. His brother Aleko Bacanos, his uncle Anastasios Leontaridis, his cousins Paraschos and Lambros Leontaridis and his grandfather Leondi Efendi were well-known kemençe players, and his grandfather Ligori Efendi played the kanun. His father was largely responsible for introducing the young Yorgo to music, presenting him with his first oud at the age of five. Yorgo attended the prestigious Lycée Saint Benoît in Istanbul, but soon left to concentrate on music full-time. He had made his first public appearance in the Eftalofos Club in Taksim at the age of twelve.Rona, Mustafa. ''Yirminci Yüzyıl Türk Musikisi Bestekarları Ve Besteleri Güfteleri İle.'' Türkiye Yayınevi. Istanbul, 1970. p 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Kazazian
Georges Kazazian ( ar, جـورج كازازيان) (born 25 Jan 1953) is an Egyptian-Armenian composer and oud player. He moved between two cultures in the vicinity of his cosmopolitan society, a feature of the social and demographic structure of Cairo at that time, which contributed to its open and decentralized compositions. Early life and career Georges Kazazian was born into an Egyptian-Armenian family in Cairo, Egypt in 1953. He completed his musical training as a self-taught artist. In 1991, after composing music for theater and film during the 1980s, he released his debut album Sabil. Georges Kazazian has performed around the world in prestigious venues, including at the Pyramids of Egypt and in India, in the project Neel Prayag with Indian maestro Shivkumar Sharma, in 2003. Collaborations In 2004, Georges Kazazian created the project Ocre and collaborated with French trumpet player Michel Marre and percussionist Ravi Magnifique. In 2009, Georges Kazazian and Rahul S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wissam Joubran
Hatem Joubran ( ar, وسام جبران) (born February 19, 1983) is a Palestinian composer, oud (an Arabic lute) virtuoso, and master lute maker. He is a member of the group Le Trio Joubran. Biography Joubran was born in Nazareth, Israel. The third child of oud maker Hatem Joubran, and the brother of oud players Samir Joubran and Adnan Joubran. He is considered as the fourth generation of the family Joubran for making string instruments. Joubran showed musical talent early in his life, at five, his fingers were already sensitive to the touch of wood, and at six, he made his first instrument by his own. Joubran start learning the violin, and moved to the oud by the age of seven. The dexterity of Joubran’s fingers, as well as his sense of music leads him to assist his father in crafting his ouds. Thus, the two experiences nurtured one another for the greatest benefit of the instrument and of its musicality. He is noted for his mastery of conveying musical structure, and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakher Hattar
Sakher Hattar ( ar, صخر حتر) is a Jordanian oud player. Oud is a stringed musical instrument similar to the Lute. He was born in Amman in 1963, and has studied and played the oud for over 25 years. Hattar has been called one of the finest oud players in the region, and one of the most significant Arab musicians of his generation, and throughout his experienced musical career, he has taken part in many events and won many awards for his talent, including first place at the International Competition for Oud in Cairo, 1993. Hattar performs solo, and with Al Nagham Al Arabi music ensemble (takht). He also takes part in performances with different orchestras, including the Orchestra of the National Music Conservatory (NMC). In addition to performing, Sakher is a researcher, lecturer and instructor of oud. He has produced CDs of his compositions, improvisations, and covers of traditional and classic Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hagopian
Richard Avedis Hagopian (born April 3, 1937) is an Armenian-American oud player and a traditional Armenian musician. Hagopian achieved popularity in the 1960s and 70s as a member of the Kef Time Band, performing ''kef'' music, a dance-oriented style of Armenian folk music popular with diaspora communities. Early life Hagopian was born in Fowler, California to Armenian parents. He has been a musician since childhood, learning to play the violin and clarinet at nine years old. He started playing the oud at age of 11. At first he was self-taught, and then by invitation he studied Eastern (Ottoman Classical) music theory and oud under the Armenian kanun player Kanuni Garbis Bakirgian. Hagopian also took lessons by correspondence from legendary blind Armenian oudist Udi Hrant Kenkulian of Istanbul, who in 1969 gave him the title of "Udi" (oud master), being one of the few to receive this title. Career Hagopian was a founding member of the Kef Time Band, which was formed in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farid Al-Atrash
Farid al-Atrash ( ar, فريد الأطرش; October 19, 1916 – December 26, 1974), also written Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor. Having immigrated to Egypt at the age of only nine years old with his mother and siblings, he studied there under numerous respected musicians. Al-Atrash embarked on a highly successful career spanning more than four decades—recording 500 songs and starring in 31 movies. Sometimes referred to as "malek al-oud", he is one of the most important figures of 20th- century Arab music. Early life Al-Atrash was born in Al-Qurayya, in southern Syria to the Druze princely al-Atrash family who fought the French colonial army. His father was Syrian and his mother was Lebanese. As a young child, al-Atrash emigrated with his mother and siblings to Egypt, escaping the French occupation. Later, they were naturalized by the Egyptian government as citizens. Farid's mother sang and played the Oud, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdel Aziz El Mubarak
Abdel Aziz El Mubarak ( ar, عبد العزيز المبارك; 1951 – 9 February 2020) was a popular Sudanese singer, born in Wad Madani. He was known for his popular love songs, pleasing tenor voice and his large band. Especially from the 1970s to the 80s, he was one of the most successful musicians during the Golden Years of Sudanese popular music. Apart from Sudanese musical traditions, he was influenced by reggae and American rhythm and blues. In addition to releasing many cassette recordings and playing at weddings and other gigs in Sudan, he and his band also recorded several CDs for the European and American market and toured internationally. He also performed solo, accompanying his singing on the oud. Biography and artistic career Abdel Aziz El Mubarak started singing and performing as a student, while still attending school in his hometown. After this, he studied music at the Institute for Music and Drama at Sudan University in Khartoum and worked for the Ministr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driss El Maloumi
Driss El Maloumi (born 25 May 1970) is a Moroccan composer and performer on the oud, the Arabic short-necked lute. He is mainly known for playing solo or in trio formations under his own name, for his long-standing cooperation with Catalan musician and musical director Jordi Savall, as well as for being a member of the group 3MA, comprising three popular African string instrumentalists. Life and artistic career El Maloumi was born in Agadir, in southern Morocco, and comes from a Berber family. After studying Arabic Literature at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, he finished his academic studies with a thesis on the philosophical approach to musical expression in artistic discourse. At the same time, he devoted himself to practical training on the oud and to his studies in both Arabic and Western classical music. In the early 1990s, he won several national awards for the oud, for example the ''Prix d'Honneur'' from the National Conservatory of Music in Rabat. Apart from his work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Dusepo
Jo Dusepo, better known simply as Dusepo is a luthier, multi-instrumentalist musician, ethnomusicologist, composer, radio host, sound engineer and producer from London, England. Since November 2014, she has also been a radio host on K2K Radio in Kilburn, west London. Luthier Jo Dusepo has worked as a luthier since 2008, and specialises in world and historical stringed instruments. Musical styles Many of her earlier music 2006–2010 was ambient, electronic music and dub in style, apart from the 2008 album ''Blue & Purple'', which was minimalism. Since 2012, most of her music has been classical music, folk music, world music and acoustic music. She has sung in English, German, Spanish, Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language *** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language ** Romanian cuisine, tradition ... and Esperanto, and also w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ara Dinkjian
Ara Dinkjian ( hy, Արա Տինքճեան; born June 18, 1958) is an Armenian-American musician. He is the founder of the band Night Ark. Dinkjian is considered one of the top oud players in the world, his compositions have been recorded in thirteen different languages, which include the multi-platinum hit "Dinata" which was performed in the closing ceremonies of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Dinkjian has written songs for Eleftheria Arvanitaki, and Sezen Aksu ("Vazgeçtim", "Sarışın", "Yine Mi Çiçek", "Hoş Geldin", among others). Turkish singers Gülşen, Kibariye, Mine Koşan, Ahmet Kaya, Coşkun Sabah, Burcu Güneş have recorded his songs. Early life Born in New Jersey to Armenian parents, Dinkjian made his professional debut at age five playing on the doumbag at the 1964 New York World's Fair, where he accompanied John Berberian and George Mgrdichian. His earliest professional musical experience was accompanying his father Onnik Dinkjian, a renowned singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamza El Din
Hamza El Din (Arabic حمزة علاء الدين) (July 10, 1929 – May 22, 2006) was an Egyptian Nubian composer, oud player, tar player, and vocalist. He was born in southern Egypt and was an internationally known musician of his native region Nubia, situated on both sides of the Egypt–Sudan border. After musical studies in Cairo, he lived and studied in Italy, Japan and the United States. El Din collaborated with a wide variety of musical performers, including Sandy Bull, the Kronos Quartet and the Grateful Dead. Early life Born in the village of Toshka in Southern Egypt, in the governorate of Aswan, El Din was originally trained to be an electrical engineer. Like much of Egyptian Nubia, his home village of Toshka was flooded due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. After working in Cairo for the Egyptian national railways, he changed direction and began to study music at the Cairo University, and later continued his studies at the Accademia Nazionale d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
