Simon Shaheen

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Simon Shaheen (* 1955 in Tarshiha , Israel ) is a Palestinian - American world music artist and jazz musician and composer from Israel . His main instruments are the lute oud and the violin .

Life and work

At the age of two, Shaheen moved to Haifa with his family . He spent most of the weekends in Tarshiha , an Israeli Arab town.

He learned the short-necked oud at the age of five and the violin a little later. Shaheen graduated from Tel Aviv University , graduated in Arabic literature and musicology . He later continued his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

In 1980 Shaheen emigrated to the USA to study at the Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University and to become a US citizen.

Shaheen founded the Near Eastern Music Ensemble, which performs classical Arabic music . He organized annual Arab concerts and art festivals.

Shaheen, a Catholic Arab, lives and works in New York City . There he leads an Arab ensemble called Qantara, which he founded himself. Qantara fuses elements of jazz , popular music and classical music with Arabic musical traditions. In 1994 he received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts institution . In addition to his work in traditional and classical Arabic music, Shaheen is involved in many cross-cultural music projects. These include concerts with Bill Laswell , Henry Threadgill , Vishwa Mohan Bhatt , Catherine Potter , Frank London and with the Klezmatics .

Discography

  • 1990 - Music of Waheeb. Mango / Iceland / PolyGram
  • 1990 - The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab. Axiom / Island / PolyGram
  • 1992 - Turath (Heritage). CMP
  • 1993 - Taqasim: Art of Improvisation in Arabic Music
  • 2001 - Blue Flame. Ark 21 / Universal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c SIMON SHAHEEN & QANTARA “Blue…” In: The Washington Post . June 22, 2001 ( highbeam.com ( memento of November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on May 30, 2020; beginning of article]).
  2. ↑ Siddhartha Mitter: Saving an oud tradition. In: boston.com, The Boston Globe , October 10, 2008, accessed May 30, 2020.
  3. ^ A b Ancient Oud gets a Hearing in Brooklyn. In: Chicago Tribune . November 7, 1994 ( pqarchiver.com ( April 2, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive ) [accessed May 30, 2020; article summary]).
  4. ^ Benjamin Brinner: Playing across a Divide. Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-972113-9 , p. 58 ( preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ Sheila Rule: A Man and His Oud. How's That Again? In: New York Times . October 29, 1994 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  6. ↑ a b All Music Guide. The Definitive Guide to Popular Music. Edited by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Backbeat Books / All Media Guide, San Francisco, CA / Ann Arbor, MI 2001, ISBN 0-87930-627-0 , p. 924 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  7. ↑ a b A Community of Many Worlds. Arab Americans in New York City. Edited by Kathleen Benson, Philip M. Kayal. Syracuse University Press, New York 2002, ISBN 0-8156-0739-3 , p. 186 ( preview in Google Book Search).
  8. ↑ Randa A. Kayyali: The Arab Americans. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport (Connecticut) 2006, ISBN 0-313-33219-3 , photos after p. 96 ( preview in Google book search).
  9. ↑ Aaron Howard: Simon Shaheen & Qantara. In: Houston Press. September 6, 2001 ( houstonpress.com [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  10. ^ Jon Pareles: At Central Park Summerstage, a World of Performers. In: The New York Times . May 18, 2000 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  11. ↑ See the ad Live at the JM! about the concert at the Jewish Museum on March 7, 1996. In: New York . Volume 29, No. 10, March 11, 1996, p. 23 ( scan in Google book search).
  12. ^ Jon Pareles: Review / Music; Klezmer Meets Arabic Tradition. In: New York Times . February 13, 1993 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 30, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Shaheen, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American world music artist and jazz composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarshiha , Israel