Pioneer in the field of Multimedia live performance in Lebanon and the Middle East. Acclaimed for combining rigorous quality standards of classical music with the expressive opportunities of ethnic and electronic music. His output includes orchestral works, instrumental, chamber music, interactive computer music, and music for Film and Television. Performed in over 100 Festivals, universities and conferences worldwide. His works has been broadcasted on public and speciality channel radio and cabel television. He was commissioned to compose for numerous professional orchestras & performers. His music has been recorded and released commercially.
His original multi-media, multi-cultural shows involve live musical performance, modern dance, poetry, videoarts, laser, superior lighting and intricate screen surround displays; New-wave music blended with ethnic, classical Arabic and Western elements, arranged with a new atmospheric texture of sounds and synchronized to visual images of arts, exotic nature, graphics and 3D computer animatiion, featuring all forms of art simultaneously woven into one coherent performance, using the most advanced technology available in the entertainment industry today. Professor of music composition, theory, and technology at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music, where he established the first Music Computer Lab in 1993 and has been heading since then. taught at the Lebanese International University, Lebanese University and the Center of Research and Development in Beirut.
Education • Completed the Advanced Studies Program in Composition for film and Television at the University of Southern California (1988). • Graduate of the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in Vienna in Composition and a program in Electro-acoustic and Experimental Music (1986). • Recipient of the Excellence and Achievement Scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research (1985). • Graduate of the Cairo Conservatory of Music and Leonardo Da Vinci Art Institute in Egypt (1979). Recent Multimedia Shows • Hommage Parisien ‘a Gibran Khalil Gibran at the Unesco, Paris November, 2008 • Smar Jbeil Castel Festivals. October, 2008 • Khalil Gibran 125Th Aniversary Festival,Gibran Museum, Bsharri, September, 2008 • Byblos Port Castel. June, 2008 • Music composition for the TV series Shurakaa May, 2008 • Opening ceremony for the 7th Doha Cultural Festival 2008: Qatar the Land of Love and Peace. • Film-score for Beirut Open City (Dukhan Bila Nar) in 2007; Producer Samir Habshi. • Premier performances of the Multi-media show Universal Harmony in April, 2007 at the UNESCO Palace Theatre in Beirut, Lebanon; and in October, 2007 at Barkley Theatre in Irvine, California. This performance is ongoing and is being performed locally and internationally. • The release of the album Mist in April, 2006 at Virgin megastore. • Opening for the Adha Festival in Qatar in 2006. • A Gulf tour for the BMW Launching of the G5 Series in 2005. • Concert at Mina Al Salam in Dubai in 2005. • Performance of the Multi-media concert Freedom in Downtown Beirut and during the Falougha Cultural Week in Summer 2005. • Concert for Al Karma Festival in Zahle in 2003. • World Premier of the Dance Suite for Symphony Orchestra with the Flint Symphony Orchestra in Michigan. 2003 • Jerash International Festival 2002 • Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra 2002 • Cairo Opera House 2003 Other Performances: • Vienna Musikensemble; Vernissage Konzert, Musikhochshule (1984) • Piano Joint Concert; Tokyo Conservatoire (SHOBI) (1984) • Joint Concert; Kursalon Modling, Austria (1985) • Pro Arte Symphony of Vienna Austrian Radio and Television Concert Hall (1986) • Vienna Mozart Fest, Konzerthaus (1986) • Quintette International; wiener Urania (1986) • University of Central Florida Symphony Orchestra; Forest Lake Academy (1987) • University of California at Los Angeles Schoenberg Auditorium (1987, 1989) • University of Southern California Symphony Orchestra; Spielberg Scorin Stage (1988) • Chamber Artist s of Washington; New Zealand Embassy; Washington D.C. (1988) • Pacific Symphony Orchestra; Orange County Performing Arts Center (1989) • University of California at Irvine; Barclay theatre (1993) • Arabic Msic Festival, Cairo Opera Center (1997) • Expo 98 Lisbon, Portugal (1998) • 2nd Muscat International Festival (1999) • Tyre Music Festivals, Lebanon 1996 • Aley Music Festival, Lebanon 1994 • Al Matn Festivals, Lebanon 1995 • ALMadeena Theater, Lebanon 1996 • Versailles Palas Theater, Lebanon 1994 • Ivoir Theatre, Lebanon 1995 • Tripoli Colorado Theatre, Lebanon 1996 • Saida Cultural Center, Lebanon 1996 • Baakline Fakhr Eddine Theate • Aitat Cultural Center • Jeita Grottto, Lebanon 1997 • Unesco Palase Theatre, Lebanon 1999 • Alshqeef Castle, Lebanon 2001 Discography Joint Concert Vienna 1996 Classical Collection USA 1987 Selected Film Music USA 1988 Harmonic Intoxication USA 1990 Visions Beyond USA 1992 Reflections From Jeita Grotto. (Video) Lebanon 1997 Towards 2000 Lebanon 1997 Mist Lebanon2006
