Ethno-music superstar Hamza El Din is to Moscow

26th March into the center of the "House" ethnic music superstar Hamza El Din (Hamza El Din) Nubia / USA - beats, singing, movement. Hamza El Din - Elder from Nubia, plays the oud (Arabic lute) and container (old percussion instrument from the headwaters of the Nile), singing and composing original songs, the world famous musician. Hamza El Din combines the sophistication of Arab culture with the music of his native Nubia. He has actually created his direction - Nubian-Arab fusion, but by tradition and classical conservatory education. Western audiences for the first time he spoke to the Newport Folk Festival in 1964. His first album in 1971, "* he * Waterwheel legendary among musicians and music lovers (the album was launched in 1998 new). The most famous drive in the United States - * Eclipse *,-produced and mixed percussion * Grateful Dead * Mike Hart (Mickey Hart). Hamza El Din music is the soundtrack of films * The Black Stallion *, * You Are What You Eat * and * The Passion in the Desert *. Hamza regularly * Kronos Quartet *. From 1995 to 1997 Hamza toured almost the whole world. His post-album tour was for a European equivalent of the Grammy nominated * Prize of the German Record Critics' *. In May 1999, released a new album Wish by * sound *. Hamza El Din music used in ballet Maurice Béjart Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Molissa Fenley Dance Company and Lines Contemporary Ballet in San Francisco. Biography: Hamza El Din - known as the father of modern Nubian music. He was born in Toshka (Nubia, Egypt). He studied at the University of King Fouad (now Cairo University), and then the community college and was admitted at the Institute for Music Ibrahim Shafiq (Ibrahim Shafiq, a renowned master of Arabic music and rhyme Muwashshah forms). A degree, he continued his studies of oriental music, makes the oud. Later, through a grant from the Government of Italy, he studied Western music and classical guitar at the University Sv.Sesilii in Rome. He emigrated to the U.S., where he lives and works, writes and publishes drives, gives concerts, ethnomusicology professor at several American universities (University of Ohio (Athens), the University of Washington (Seattle), University of Texas (Austin) and other ). In 1980, a grant from the Japan Foundation, Hamza to Tokyo to teach comparative performance technique bive the Arabic oud and Japanese musical instruments. Hamza lives in San Francisco, continue to write, teach, record and travel around the world with concerts. Hamza El Din composed music for the Kronos Quartet * and * Play * Persian * Peter Sellars. In recent years he has performed at many major festivals in Edinburgh, Salzburg, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Los Angeles, etc.