Hamza El Din

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Hamza El Din (born July 10, 1929 in Toshka near Wadi Halfa , † May 22, 2006 in Berkeley , California ) was an Egyptian oud and tar player and singer.

Hamza El Din grew up in Upper Egypt on the border with Sudan in the village of Toshka, where he was influenced by traditional Nubian music. He studied at the King Fouad University in Cairo and at the Ibrahim Shafiq Music Institute . At the König Fouad Institute for Middle Eastern Music he learned to play the oud, after which he studied Western music at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome .

In the early 1960s he undertook his first concert tours through the USA , where he moved in 1964 after his hometown had sunk in the floods of Lake Nasser, which was dammed up by the Assuan dam . This is where the album Escalay: The Water Wheel (1971) was created, which is considered a key work in world music and influenced composers such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley . In addition to his concert tours and recordings, he taught ethnomusicology a . a. at Ohio University , the University of Washington, and the University of Texas .

In the 1980s, El Din was in Japan to study the Biwa . He then settled in the San Francisco Bay Area , where he performed an adaptation of Escalay with the Kronos Quartet in 1992 and recorded his last album in 1999.

Hamza El Din died on May 22, 2006 of infection following gallbladder surgery in Berkeley, California.

Discography

  • 1964 - Music of Nubia with Ahmed Abdul-Malik , Sandy Bull
  • 1964 - Newport Folk Festival 1964. Evening Concerts, Vol. 2 . Desse Barama [Peace]
  • 1965 - Al Oud
  • 1971 - Escalay: The Water Wheel
  • 1978 - Eclipse
  • 1982 - A Song of the Nile
  • 1990 - Journey
  • 1990 - Nubiana Suite: Live in Tokyo
  • 1992 - Pieces of Africa . Escalay: The Water Wheel with Kronos Quartet
  • 1995 - Lily of the Nile
  • 1996 - Available Sound-Darius
  • 1996 - Muwashshah
  • 1999 - A Wish with Amy Cyr , Joan Jeanrenaud , WA Mathieu , Shizuru Ohtaka

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personal data
SURNAME Din, Hamza El
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian oud and tar player and singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Toshka at Wadi Halfa
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 2006
Place of death Berkeley , California