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Naseer ShammaNaseer Shamma was born in 1963 in Kut, a village on the Tigris River in Iraq. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad,
following in the footsteps of Jamil and Munir Bachir. In 1985, Shamma played his own compositions at his first concert,
attended by several renowned Iraqi artists. At the time, he worked closely with "the emir of the oud," the late Iraqi master Munir Bashir.
He received his diploma from the Baghdad Academy of Music in 1987. He began to teach oud after three years at the academy, as well as continuing
his own studies. Shamma has composed music for films, plays and television, and has written a unique oud method for one hand - this is designed at
for children injured during the Gulf War. Between 1993 and 1998 he taught oud the Higher Institute of Music in Tunisia, and in 1999 he
took the post of Director of the Arab Centre for the Oud in Cairo. His compositions are culturally unique. He performs on the oud in a manner
which combines ancient methods with his own modern compositions.
He has constructed an eight-string oud following the manuscript of the 9th century music theorist al-Farabi.
This new design (8 instead of 6 strings) expanded the musical range of the oud and gave it a distinct tonality
 Baghdad Night
Fawq Al Nakhl
From the heart
Happened At Al-Amiriya
The Barber Of Seville
The Moon Fades
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