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- Where do you live?
- Sweden & UK
- Is music your main income source?
- Yes!
- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- television, Orchestra, Other
- Website:
- http://www.myspace.com/ahmadjawadi
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- World, Oriental (Middle East)
- About Me:
- Well I'm Iraqi/Swedish, I write Oriental music using the Western background and forms.
I composed many works for the Orchestra, String Orchestra, String quartet, Violin and Piano Two Violins and other groups and sometimes I compose pure Oriental music such as (Samai Hujaz) and I have many works for the Violin solo with the Orchestra; normally I play the solo part in the Oriental style.
I arrange the Oriental songs (Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish or whatever) such as my track (Hawre).
Many of my works were played in Iraq, Jordan, Sweden and two of my works were played in USA (Kurdistan Symphonic Suite/ two movements and Kurdistan National Anthem).
I have several political musical works such as Kurdistan S.S. and Baghdad in Agony, each was built on a story, I write the story which is taken from the fact or the history or just a short story and then write the music on these stories. Sometimes I write music just to describe my feelings about something has happened such as Jubilation, to read the stories of Kurdistan S.S. please follow the shortcut below:
http://www.hewlerglobe.net/pdf/issues_44/13.pdf
My music here is mixed between orchestral works and some of them are very Oriental and almost without arrangement such as (Samai Huzaj), almost each track is in different style.
To learn more about me please you can read my biography.
• Born in 1952 Musol, Iraq
• Studied the violin in Ankara one year 1971.
• Studied the music in Cairo Music Conservatory 1972-1977.
• Played with the most famous Arabic orchestras in Cairo such as Al-Neel, Al-Takht Al-Arabi, Hani Mhanna Orchestra, as well as the Conservatory Symphony Orchestra.
• Joined many of the famous Egyptian singers and composers such as Muahmmad Abdel-Wahab.
• Teacher in the Fine Arts Institute 1977-1991 Iraq, Music and Ballet School in Baghdad, 1980-1983.
• Violin player in the Iraqi Symphony Orchestra, 1977-1983.
• Leader of the Iraqi Radio & TV Orchestra, 1977-1981 & 1984-1988.
• Teacher in the National Music Conservatory N.M.C "Queen Noor Al-Hussein Foundation", head of the Solfege Department then the Applied Music Departments 1992-2001, Teacher in the Jordanian Music Academy, Amman, Jordan 1991-2001.
• Leader for the N.M.C Arabic Orchestra and Second violin principle in the N.M.C Orchestra 1991-2001.
• Played with many Swedish orchestras and groups such as Sumer, Al-Andalus, Cappella Cordialis Orchestra, 2001-now.
• Part time teacher for the oriental violin in the Music Academy in Gothenburg 2004-2005.
• Arranged many songs for the Iraqi TV& Radio 1978-1988, N.M.C Orchestra 1991-2001.
• composed many works for the orchestra such as Kurdistan Symphonic Suite, Baghdad in Agony, Al-Rashid, Elegy, Jubilation, Ninawa, Ashur, Ali Baba, Love Melody, Babylon, Anadhol "Anatolia" Dance, composed for some other groups such as Oriental Bee, Bekhal "a Kurdish city", Cousin's Dance, Orient, Samai Hujaz and many more, many of these compositions have been played in Sweden, Kurdistan Symphonic Suite and the Kurdistan Anthem arranged by Al-Jawadi has been played and recorded in USA at the 8th of November 2005.
• Many lectures and workshops in the Oriental Music in Sweden.
• Joined many festivals such as, tours in W.Germany 1976, Italy 1976, Yugoslavia 1976, Carthage Festival in Tunis 1977& 1979, Jarash & Fheas Festivals in Jordan "1992-2001", Uzbekistan the International Music Festival 1997, Cairo Opera Oriental Festival 1997, 1998 & 1999, The Iraqi week at SOAS (London) 2006, many festivals in Sweden such as Umeå folk music festival, Sundusval festival, Stockholm folk music festival, Östersund festival, Göteborg folk festival, Malmö folk festival, Evert Taube's Festival, Krokstrand Festival and many others.
My other sites
www.youtube.com/ahmadjawadi
http://www.songweavers.com/user_show_page.asp?member=ahmadjawadi
http://musicplayer.ning.com/profile/ahmadjawadi
http://musicplayer.ning.com/profile/ahmadaljawadi
Some of my activities
ahmadjawadi's Videos
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The Moon is our Neighbor
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Anadol Dance/ ِAnatolian Dance
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La Mush Ana/ Egyptian song from the 40th of the last century.
Added by ahmadjawadi
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The Arabic Romeo & Juliet
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Sirto/ From the Artistic Classical Turkish music
Added by ahmadjawadi
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Kurdistan National Anthem
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Sufi Prayer
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Ali Baba/ Violin solo with String Orchestra/ Sweden
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Cleopatra Overture
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Thanks for the comments! I'm so sorry for the late reply. The fourth track on my page (Walk in the Forest) is a live piano quintet; the rest of the tracks are samples. I'm slowly getting further into world music, but previously I've done some Eastern European folk tracks (I play balalaika and domra), as well as some Latin percussion work.
Your string writing is just lovely. I've been listening to your tracks as I type ("Baghdad in Agony" right now--beautiful).
Next time I make a new video, I may ask for some more tips - and yes, I am reading the music, and concentrating really hard as you can tell !
I used East West Orchestral Gold for the instrument sounds. It was really difficult to combine real audio with VST sounds, and that was the best I could do, but I was quite happy with it.
I take my video camera with me and film nature that I find either interesting or beautiful, or both. I keep the clips for perhaps a year, and then use them for music that I think fits the mood. I then put it on youtube - as I have done with this clip.
The problem with Youtube is that it does compress the sound - so it sounds better on this website than youtube, as you have probably found out too.
Will watch some more of yours now.
Best wishes
adrian
If you get the chance, please also see the video of me playing the piece "villavidovic" (high orc mix is just the name of the mix) in the video section of the home page of this website. The video also features my filming of the English countryside.
Best wishes
Adrian
i wish we make a lot of good music.
cheers
Rotem Hecht
Thanks for stopping by my profile. Your music is wonderful! I love the violin, such a beautiful instrument and your Oriental style is very interesting.
I look forward to getting to know you and your music much better.
Regards,
Leon
Thank you so very much for your kind and supportive words. I work hard on the orchestrations to make them sound as professional as possible. I hope you got a chance see and hear my latest music that I had to score for a composers competition. Its called Lifes Adventure. Check it out on my page.
Are you a professional violinist?
I also enjoyed your works.
Al lthe best my friend!
Stephen
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