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{{Short description|Music academy in Syria}}
{{Short description|Music school in Damascus, Syria}}
'''The High Institute of Music in Damascus''' (HIM) ({{Lang-ar|المعهد العالى للموسيقى}}) is the national [[Music school|music academy]] in [[Syria]]. It was founded in 1962 by music educator and conductor [[Solhi al-Wadi]] as the Arab Institute of Music and was established in its current form in 1990 by presidential decree. The aim of the institute is to prepare upcoming generations of musicians to perform both [[Arabic music|Arabic]] and international music.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=International Directory of Music and Music Education Institutions |url=https://idmmei.org/record.php?id=2624 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=idmmei.org}}</ref>
'''The Higher Institute of Music in Damascus''' (HIM) ({{Langx|ar|المعهد العالى للموسيقى}}) is the national music academy in [[Syria]].


==History==
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The institute trains students in various Arabic and [[Musical instrument|western musical instruments]]. It also teaches the principles of individual, collective, Arabic and international vocal music performance. Further, it offers courses for future composers and band leaders and prepares researchers in [[musicology]], especially to study Arabic music. The institute has trained students for musical ensembles with string, wind and percussion instruments, for the [[Syrian National Symphony Orchestra]], Arabic music choirs and orchestra, as well as for opera singing.<ref name=":1" /> Further, the HIM participates in musical activities both in Damascus and in other cities in Syria. The HIM is housed in the same building complex as the [[Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts (Damascus)|Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts]] and located next to the [[Damascus Opera House]] on [[Umayyad Square]].
The HIM was founded in 1962 by music educator and conductor [[Solhi al-Wadi]] as the Arab Institute of Music and was established in its current form as a [[Music school|conservatory]] in 1990 by presidential decree. The aim of the institute is to prepare upcoming generations of musicians to perform both [[Arabic music|Arabic]] and international music.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=International Directory of Music and Music Education Institutions |url=https://idmmei.org/record.php?id=2624 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=idmmei.org}}</ref>


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The institute trains students in various Arabic and [[Musical instrument|western musical instruments]]. It also teaches the principles of individual, collective, Arabic and international vocal music performance. Further, it offers courses for future composers and band leaders and prepares researchers in [[musicology]], especially to study Arabic music. The institute has trained students for musical ensembles with string, wind and percussion instruments, for the [[Syrian National Symphony Orchestra]], Arabic music choirs and orchestra, as well as for opera singing.<ref name=":1" /> In 2004, musicians [[Kinan Azmeh]], [[Dima Orsho]], [[Issam Rafea]] and other former graduates of the HIM formed the [[jazz fusion]] band [[Hewar]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Syria: Oriental Jazz with a Touch of Classical Music - Qantara.de |url=https://en.qantara.de/content/syria-oriental-jazz-with-a-touch-of-classical-music |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World |language=en}}</ref>
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=== Notable staff and graduates ===


Further, the HIM regularly participates in musical activities both in Damascus and in other cities in Syria. The HIM is housed in the same building complex as the [[Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts (Damascus)|Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts]] and located next to the [[Damascus Opera House]] on [[Umayyad Square]].<ref name=":3">Silverstein 2013, p. 39</ref>
* Solhi al-Wadi, founder and first director


Several of the institute's graduates have moved abroad, often for further training or engagements at music venues, but also fleeing the [[Syrian civil war|Civil War in Syria]] since 2011. Before this and since its beginnings, the institute had employed several Russian teachers seconded by the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Российские музыканты проведут мастер-классы для студентов консерваторий в Сирии (Russian musicians hold master classes for students of conservatories in Syria) |url=https://tass.ru/obschestvo/5901664 |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=tass.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Александровна |first1=Рапацкая Людмила |last2=Раша |first2=Харфуш |date=2019 |title=Культурологическим подход к периодизации развития сирийской музыкальной культуры как научный инструментарий её освоения будущими музыкантами-педагогами в России [A cultural approach to the periodization of the development of Syrian musical culture as a scientific tool for its development by future music teachers in Russia] |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/kulturologicheskim-podhod-k-periodizatsii-razvitiya-siriyskoy-muzykalnoy-kultury-kak-nauchnyy-instrumentariy-eyo-osvoeniya-buduschimi |journal=Музыкальное искусство и образование |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=138–150 |doi=10.31862/2309-1428-2019-7-3-138-150 |s2cid=214525558 |issn=2309-1428|doi-access=free }}</ref> Among them was Victor Babenko, choir conductor and the leading author of a musical dictionary and harmony textbook for Syrian music.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Традиционное искусство пения в контексте современного музыкального образования сирии (Traditional art of singing in the context of modern musical education in Syria) |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/traditsionnoe-iskusstvo-peniya-v-kontekste-sovremennogo-muzykalnogo-obrazovaniya-sirii/viewer |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=cyberleninka.ru}}</ref>
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* Lubana al Quntar, soprano singer, former Head of the Opera Department at the High Institute of Music in Damascus (2003–11), teaching opera and Arabic singing<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lubana al-Quntar |url=https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/people/13946 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=www.nationaltheatre.org.uk}}</ref>

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* [[Gaswan Zerikly]], pianist and composer, teacher for piano
Professional musicians from Syria have performed at concerts in the Middle East, the U.S. and notably in Europe, such as the [[Morgenland Festival Osnabrück]] in Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview with Michael Dreyer of the Osnabruck Morgenland Festival: A hub connecting the Orient and the Occident - Qantara.de |url=https://en.qantara.de/content/interview-with-michael-dreyer-of-the-osnabruck-morgenland-festival-a-hub-connecting-the |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World |language=en}}</ref>
* Victor Babenko, Russian teacher for harmony, music theory and choir conductor<ref name=":2" />

* Raad Khalaf, teacher for violin and ear training
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== Notable staff and graduates ==
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* [[Dima Orsho]], soprano singer and composer, member of the Syrian [[Hewar]] ensemble and of Baroque and world music ensembles, based in the U.S.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Artists |url=http://songsfordaystocome.com/artists/ |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Songs For Days To Come |language=en-US}}</ref>

* [[Kinan Azmeh]], clarinetist and composer, member of [[Hewar]] ensemble and of jazz, world music and contemporary classical ensembles, based in the U.S.<ref name=":0" />
'''Faculty'''
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* [[Issam Rafea]], former Head of the Arabic Music Department, oud player and composer, member of [[Hewar]] ensemble and of Arabic and world music ensembles, based in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Issam Rafea – Crossing Borders Music |url=https://crossingbordersmusic.org/explore-the-music/syria/issam-rafea/ |access-date=2022-10-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Lena Chamamyan]], soprano singer and songwriter, based in [[Paris]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lena Chamamyan |url=https://auroraprize.com/en/lena-chamamyan |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=auroraprize.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Athil Hamdan]], chellist and second director after al-Wadi<ref>{{Cite web |title=TEAM – Nawras |url=https://nawras.org/our-team/ |access-date=2022-10-12 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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* [[Lubana al Quntar]], soprano singer, former Head of the Opera Department at the High Institute of Music in Damascus (2003–11)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lubana al-Quntar |url=https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/people/13946 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=www.nationaltheatre.org.uk}}</ref>
* Mireille Bittar, soprano singer, based in [[Amsterdam]]
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* [[Issam Rafea]], former Head of the Arabic Music Department, oud player and composer, based in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Issam Rafea – Crossing Borders Music |url=https://crossingbordersmusic.org/explore-the-music/syria/issam-rafea/ |access-date=2022-10-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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* [[Gaswan Zerikly]], (piano)

'''Graduates'''
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* [[Dima Orsho]], soprano singer and composer<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Artists |url=http://songsfordaystocome.com/artists/ |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Songs For Days To Come |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009182122/http://songsfordaystocome.com/artists/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Kinan Azmeh]], clarinetist and composer<ref name=":0" />
* [[Lena Chamamyan]], soprano singer and songwriter<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lena Chamamyan |url=https://auroraprize.com/en/lena-chamamyan |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=auroraprize.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[MAias Alyamani|Maias Alyamani]], violinist and composer
* [[MAias Alyamani|Maias Alyamani]], violinist and composer
* [[:de:Hassan Taha|Hassan Taha]], oud and horn player, based in Switzerland<ref>{{Cite web |last=SWR Classic |first= |last2= |first2= |date=2012-09-25 |title=Hassan Taha |url=https://www.swr.de/swrclassic/donaueschinger-musiktage/article-swr-1606.html |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=swr.online |language=de}}</ref>
* [[:de:Hassan Taha|Hassan Taha]], oud and horn player<ref>{{Cite web |last=SWR Classic |date=2012-09-25 |title=Hassan Taha |url=https://www.swr.de/swrclassic/donaueschinger-musiktage/article-swr-1606.html |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=swr.online |language=de |archive-date=2022-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615184557/https://www.swr.de/swrclassic/donaueschinger-musiktage/article-swr-1606.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Basel Rajoub]], saxophone player
* [[Rasha Rizk]], singer
* [[Shafi Badreddine]], oud player and composer<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saad |first=Hannibal |title=Contemporary Classical Music in Syria |url=https://syrian-heritage.org/contemporary-classical-music-in-syria/ |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=syrian-heritage.org/ |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Mohannad Nasser]], oud player and composer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mohannad Nasser - Oud performance & drinks reception - Rhodes Trust |url=https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/ |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships |language=en}}</ref><ref>https://valencia.berklee.edu/mohannad-nasser-seeking-the-intersection-of-traditional-and-contemporary-music/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>
* [[Dania Tabbaa]], pianist<ref>{{Cite web |last=General-Anzeiger Bonn |date=2018-11-23 |title=Woche der Kulturen: Grenzen überwinden mit Kunst und Literatur |url=https://ga.de/bonn/stadt-bonn/grenzen-ueberwinden-mit-kunst-und-literatur_aid-43961539 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=General-Anzeiger Bonn |language=de}}</ref>
* [[Waed Bouhassoun]], singer and oud player<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bensignor |first=François |date=2016-07-01 |title=Waed Bouhassoun |url=https://journals.openedition.org/hommesmigrations/3741 |journal=Hommes & migrations. Revue française de référence sur les dynamiques migratoires |language=fr |issue=1315 |pages=134–139 |doi=10.4000/hommesmigrations.3741 |issn=1142-852X|doi-access=free }}</ref>


== See also ==
In 2004, former graduates of the HIM, who had embarked on their individual musical careers, formed the jazz fusion band [[Hewar]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Syria: Oriental Jazz with a Touch of Classical Music - Qantara.de |url=https://en.qantara.de/content/syria-oriental-jazz-with-a-touch-of-classical-music |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World |language=en}}</ref>


* [[Music of Syria]]
Before the [[Syrian civil war|Syrian Civil War]] the institute employed mainly Russian teachers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://tass.ru/obschestvo/5901664 |title = Российские музыканты проведут мастер-классы для студентов консерваторий в Сирии|access-date=2022-07-25 |website=tass.ru}}</ref> Among them was Victor Babenko, choir conductor and the leading author of a musical dictionary and harmony textbook for Syrian music.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Традиционное искусство пения в контексте современного музыкального образования сирии (Traditional art of singing in the context of modern musical education in Syria) |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/traditsionnoe-iskusstvo-peniya-v-kontekste-sovremennogo-muzykalnogo-obrazovaniya-sirii/viewer |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=cyberleninka.ru}}</ref>
* [[Hewar]]


== References ==
== References ==
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== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==


* Silverstein Shayna and Hassan Taha (2012). Distending Modal Space // The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity. Edited by Thomas Burkhalter, Kay Dickinson and Benjamin J. Harbert. - Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, pp. 50-73 [[:de:Spezial:ISBN-Suche/9780819573865|ISBN 978-0-8195-7386-5]].
* {{Cite book |last=Silverstein |first=Shayna |date=2013 |chapter=Transforming Space: The Production of Contemporary Syrian Art Music |chapter-url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:30785/ |title=The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity |editor1-last=Burkhalter |editor1-first=Thomas |editor-last2=Dickinson |editor2-first=Kay |editor3-last=Harbert |editor3-first=Benjamin J. |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=978-0-8195-7387-2 |publication-place=Middletown |url=https://www.hfsbooks.com/books/the-arab-avant-garde-burkhalter-dickinson-harbert/ |oclc=862608636
|pages=37–73}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Silverstein |first=Shayna |date=2013 |title=Transforming Space: The Production of Contemporary Syrian Art Music |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:30785/ |journal=The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity |language=en-US |pages=37–73}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Silverstein |first=Shayna |title=Syria's Radical Dabke (Summer 2012) |url=https://www.academia.edu/1233692 |journal=Middle East Report |volume=263 |issue=Summer 2012 |pages=33–37}}


== External links==
== External links==
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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Damascus]]
[[Category:Art schools in Syria]]
[[Category:Art schools in Syria]]
[[Category:Ministry of Culture (Syria)]]

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The Higher Institute of Music in Damascus (HIM) (Arabic: المعهد العالى للموسيقى) is the national music academy in Syria.

History

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The HIM was founded in 1962 by music educator and conductor Solhi al-Wadi as the Arab Institute of Music and was established in its current form as a conservatory in 1990 by presidential decree. The aim of the institute is to prepare upcoming generations of musicians to perform both Arabic and international music.[1]

The institute trains students in various Arabic and western musical instruments. It also teaches the principles of individual, collective, Arabic and international vocal music performance. Further, it offers courses for future composers and band leaders and prepares researchers in musicology, especially to study Arabic music. The institute has trained students for musical ensembles with string, wind and percussion instruments, for the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra, Arabic music choirs and orchestra, as well as for opera singing.[1] In 2004, musicians Kinan Azmeh, Dima Orsho, Issam Rafea and other former graduates of the HIM formed the jazz fusion band Hewar.[2]

Further, the HIM regularly participates in musical activities both in Damascus and in other cities in Syria. The HIM is housed in the same building complex as the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts and located next to the Damascus Opera House on Umayyad Square.[3]

Several of the institute's graduates have moved abroad, often for further training or engagements at music venues, but also fleeing the Civil War in Syria since 2011. Before this and since its beginnings, the institute had employed several Russian teachers seconded by the Soviet Union.[4][5] Among them was Victor Babenko, choir conductor and the leading author of a musical dictionary and harmony textbook for Syrian music.[6]

Professional musicians from Syria have performed at concerts in the Middle East, the U.S. and notably in Europe, such as the Morgenland Festival Osnabrück in Germany.[7]

Notable staff and graduates

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Faculty

  • Athil Hamdan, chellist and second director after al-Wadi[8]
  • Lubana al Quntar, soprano singer, former Head of the Opera Department at the High Institute of Music in Damascus (2003–11)[9]
  • Issam Rafea, former Head of the Arabic Music Department, oud player and composer, based in the U.S.[10]
  • Gaswan Zerikly, (piano)

Graduates

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "International Directory of Music and Music Education Institutions". idmmei.org. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  2. ^ "Syria: Oriental Jazz with a Touch of Classical Music - Qantara.de". Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  3. ^ Silverstein 2013, p. 39
  4. ^ "Российские музыканты проведут мастер-классы для студентов консерваторий в Сирии (Russian musicians hold master classes for students of conservatories in Syria)". tass.ru. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  5. ^ Александровна, Рапацкая Людмила; Раша, Харфуш (2019). "Культурологическим подход к периодизации развития сирийской музыкальной культуры как научный инструментарий её освоения будущими музыкантами-педагогами в России [A cultural approach to the periodization of the development of Syrian musical culture as a scientific tool for its development by future music teachers in Russia]". Музыкальное искусство и образование. 7 (3): 138–150. doi:10.31862/2309-1428-2019-7-3-138-150. ISSN 2309-1428. S2CID 214525558.
  6. ^ "Традиционное искусство пения в контексте современного музыкального образования сирии (Traditional art of singing in the context of modern musical education in Syria)". cyberleninka.ru. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  7. ^ "Interview with Michael Dreyer of the Osnabruck Morgenland Festival: A hub connecting the Orient and the Occident - Qantara.de". Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  8. ^ "TEAM – Nawras". Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  9. ^ "Lubana al-Quntar". www.nationaltheatre.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  10. ^ "Issam Rafea – Crossing Borders Music". Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  11. ^ a b "Artists". Songs For Days To Come. Archived from the original on 2022-10-09. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  12. ^ "Lena Chamamyan". auroraprize.com. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  13. ^ SWR Classic (2012-09-25). "Hassan Taha". swr.online (in German). Archived from the original on 2022-06-15. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  14. ^ Saad, Hannibal. "Contemporary Classical Music in Syria". syrian-heritage.org/. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  15. ^ "Mohannad Nasser - Oud performance & drinks reception - Rhodes Trust". Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  16. ^ https://valencia.berklee.edu/mohannad-nasser-seeking-the-intersection-of-traditional-and-contemporary-music/ [bare URL]
  17. ^ General-Anzeiger Bonn (2018-11-23). "Woche der Kulturen: Grenzen überwinden mit Kunst und Literatur". General-Anzeiger Bonn (in German). Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  18. ^ Bensignor, François (2016-07-01). "Waed Bouhassoun". Hommes & migrations. Revue française de référence sur les dynamiques migratoires (in French) (1315): 134–139. doi:10.4000/hommesmigrations.3741. ISSN 1142-852X.

33°30′44″N 36°16′44″E / 33.51222°N 36.27889°E / 33.51222; 36.27889

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