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Basem Darwisch

Born: April

Basem Darwisch
Composer, Producer and Oud Soloist

Basem Darwisch was born in Bani Mazar, El Minia, Upper Egypt, where he learned music as a child in his Coptic community. He studied German linguistics at Ain Shams University and at the same time music at the Arab Music Institute in Cairo. In 1990 he went to Germany , where he studied Egyptology and Islamic Studies at Heidelberg University. In 1995 he made a career shift and began studying air traffic management in Frankfurt, specializing in airline IT, and later on becoming a business consultant and an IT consultant also for music software programs such as Steinberg VST (Wizoo famous percussions software, Darabuka).