Abu Dhabi, November 08: Bait Al Oud Al Arabi (The Arabian Oud House) celebrated Friday night the graduation of its first student at the headquarter of the house in Abu Dhabi.
Bait Al Oud Al Arabi (The Arabian Oud House) was founded two years ago by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) under the supervision of oud master Nasser Shamma.
The graduate Ali Obaid, an Emirati national performed, in this occasion before a specialist committee and played some famous authentic Arab music from different schools and eras.
In the night before, Nasser Shammaa performed with the house oud Orchestra which consists of students and teachers in the house in the second anniversary of the house at Al Dhafra Theater in the Cultural Foundation.
16 oud players performed in the concert titled “Mural of life… Mural of dream” where students showed their high skills playing a number of Arab musical peaces from different historic eras starting from Abbasi and Andalusia ages when oud was developed and flourished in the Islamic world to the modern ages when great composers like Qasabgi presented some of the best musical Arab works combining great singer Um Kalthoum.
The surprise of the concert was the nine-year-old musician Ahmed Al Sheikh who showed very high skills performing on the oldest oriental instrument “Qanoon”.
Shammaa hailed Ahmed’s talent, adding that the philosophers’ instrument “was invented by the philosopher Al Farabi [864-950] and was used by philosophers to test their theories.”
Another two young talents Zaina and here brother Mohammed Essam (12 and 10 year-old respectively) performed on Qanoon showing a hormony performance in a duet peace.
Shammaa said launching the house in Abu Dhabi and having more students learning the oud was a great achievement and another step forward to his childhood dream; to find oud in everybody’s hands.
—Agencies