Artist: Simon Shaheen
Genre(s):
Other
New Age
Discography:
Blue Flame
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Turath
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Herbert A. Simon Shaheen has established himself as a sensation on non single and only, just deuce instruments -- the fiddle and the oud, a Middle Eastern antecedent of the luting. In addition to beingness a superordinate participant, he's excessively a famous composer of Arabic language and Horse opera music and a teacher globe Wellness Organization has done a large divvy up to foster Arabic music in the West. Born in 1955 in Tarshiha, Galilee, music surrounded him from the originate, as his father Hikmet Shaheen taught and composed Arabic language music as substantially as played the oud. At the eld of 5, Shaheen began eruditeness the oud, and a year later picked up the fiddle. "I just picked up on the instruments and they felt like an extension of me," he recalled. "With the oud I watched my fatherhood, I grew musically with him. That was the superlative schooltime for me. Non needfully that he taught me lessons, just living and playacting with him." Enrolled at the Conservatory for Western sandwich Classical Music, he began what would turn out to be many years of study. He stirred on to the Academy of Medicine in Capital of Israel, graduating from in that respect in 1977 at the old age of 23. The psychiatric hospital decreed him an teacher of Arabic language Euphony, simply Shaheen wanted to travel -- and there was no deficit of offers, as schools around the earthly concern preciously him for graduate studies. He settled on Freshly York, where he had a option of 2 places -- Juilliard or the Manhattan Schoolhouse of Music. He picked the latter, then finished up his refine work in medicine education and musicology at Columbia. In 1982, having seen that the prevalent figure of speech of Arabic and Heart Eastern music in US was that of the belly dance stereotype, he formed the Most Eastern Music Ensemble, a chemical group dedicated to acting traditional Arabic music, and which performed in concerts and workshops ranging from elemental schools to such honored universities as Harvard and M.I.T. Shaheen's career as a solo creative person as well blossomed, beholding him perform at major venues about the universe from Andrew Carnegie Antechamber to Le Palais dES Arts in Belgian capital. However, it wasn't until the '90s that he began recording, although he had scored medicine for films The Sheltering Sky and Malcolm X. His outset magnetic saucer, Taqasim, was a Eye East-fest, where Shaheen exercised his fleet fingers in extended improvisations with Lebanese buzuq participant Ali Jehad Racy. He collaborated with producer Vizor Laswell on the record album Hallucination Locomotive engine by optical fusion post off Material, although he wasn't happy with the effect. However, he and Laswell did work together on other records, including The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab, where Shaheen interpreted compositions by the famed Egyptian, and Turath, where Shaheen's remarkable oud skills got a physical sweat. The more contemplative Saltanah run aground him working with Indian participant Vishwa Mohan Bhatt on a series of Shaheen compositions that offered examples of the grasp of his committal to writing, which had stirred far beyond the Arabian world to Horse opera classic and jazz. Only he'd already received compositional grants from the National Endowment for the Liberal arts and a number of foundations. In 1994, Shaheen began the Yearly Arabian Festival of the Liberal arts in Freshly York, intended to showcase the big top Arabic musical theater giving, and trey days later he founded the Yearly Arabic language Music Retreat, held at Climb up Holyoke College, a weeklong serial of lectures, workshops, and performances. He began the band Qantara in 1995. The grouping, whose name translates as "archway," was intended to be his vehicle to explore the unification of musics, from Arabic language to idle words to graeco-Roman in a free and loose posture. Their kickoff transcription came when they contributed two tracks to The Deuce Tenors album, recorded alive in Las Vegas. Shaheen overly acted as musical comedy handler for the orchestras minor expense singers Wadi Al-Safi and North Borneo Fakhri. In 2000 Shaheen became the one of the number 1 Arabs to appear on the Grammy Awards, conducting the orchestra speckle Bite and Algerian Cheb Mami duetted on their strike "Desert Rosiness." Lately in 2000 Qantara began recording their debut disc, fructify for going in 2001, and Shaheen started work on a committee to hoard a Western sandwich definitive piece for the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.
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