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Naseer Shamma was innate around 1963 around Kut, the village on the Tigris River in Iraq. He began researching a oud at the age of Xii around Baghdad, following in the footsteps of Jamil & Munir Bachir. After he was Xi, Shammthe saw a oud first, in the paws of a stylish music teacher. Although Shamma's father, the shop creator, was religiously conservative, he did non object to his boy's artistic ambitions. Inside 1985, Shamma played his have compositions at his number 1 concert, attended by many famous Iraqi creative person. At a period, he worked closely sustaining "the emir of the oud," the late Iraqi master Munir Bashir. However Shamma wanted to blaze his have path. Master Munir invented a system of contemplation using oud, however Shamma wanted his music to carry content, an idea or even image that is shocking. He received his sheepskaround from either a Baghdad Academy of Music in 1987. He began to teach oud fallowing trey years at a academy, likewise when continuing his have studies. Shamma has composed music for films, plays & television, & has written a unique oud method for a single hand - this is designed at for tykes hurt when you took the Gulf War. Between 1993 & 1998 he taught oud a Higher Institute of Music within Tunisia, and inside 1999 he took a post of Director of the Arab Centre for the Oud around Cairo. He performs on the oud inside the manner which combines ancient methods by owning his have modern compositions.
He has constructed an eight-string oud charted a manuscript of the 9th century music theorizer al-Farabi. This newly project (Viii instead of Sixer strings) expanded the musical range of the oud & gave it a distinct key.
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Naseer Shamma [official]
Iraqi oud performer. Includes photos, concert listings, and audio samples from several recordings.
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