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Hamza El Din

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Hamza El Din is considered the father of modern Nubian music. He was born in Toshka, Nubia, Egypt. Hamza studied at King Fouad University (now the University of Cairo), then enrolled in the Popular University and at Ibrahim Shafiq's Institute of Music (Shafiq was renowned as a master of Arabian music and of the Muwashshah rhyme forms). Following graduation, he continued his studies at the King Fouad Institute for Middle Eastern Music, mastering the oud. Later, with an Italian government grant, he studied Western music and classical guitar at the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. Next he emigrated to the U.S., where he lived and worked as a recording and concert artist, and taught as an ethnomusicologist in several American universities, including the University of Ohio (Athens), the University of Washington (Seattle) and the University of Texas (Austin)

Album

Night Harvest

Label: Global Fusion Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: Message from the Nile (McCoy Tyner) Orca Stroll (Ian Dogole) The Big Dipper (Ian Dogole) Bemsha Swing (Thelonious Monk) Point of Departure (John R. Burr) Mbira Swatch (Ian Dogole) Methinks (for Frederick Sommer) (Ian Dogole)

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