Damascus-Sana
The Higher Institute of Music launched this evening its first evening for the year 2021, with a new musical suit aimed at consecrating and developing its academic vision that is in the interest of students and the academic educational process, at the institute's headquarters in Damascus.
The evening, on which 12 male and female students took turns from the different specializations of the institute from the first to the fourth year, a mixture of playing and solo singing, and a rich meal between the eastern and western styles in terms of the presented works, where each of the students, Salma Nasr, played a second year on the piano, and Lana Al-Misfi, a third year, played the violin. Hanin Al-Melh third year on the rhythm.
Student Farah Suleiman played a second year on the flute instrument, student Hanin El Halabi, in a second year, performed a classical operatic singing, and Maria Shaheen played a second year on the cello, and Natali Asabati played a fourth year on the trumpet, while student Bashar Younes played the guitar, in the third year, on the guitar, and Rahaf Bara, in the first year, played the viola. .
In the last part of the evening, student Suleiman Al-Mustafa played the oud in a fourth year, and student Awj Abu Zayd, in a fourth year, played the qanun instrument, to conclude the evening with the presentation of a song “Children We Were A Boy” presented by student Rayan Jarra, fourth year, Department of Oriental Singing.
In a statement to SANA, the Dean of the Institute, Maestro Adnan Fathallah, confirmed that last year the concerts were included in the study plan for several reasons, including the necessity for the student to know how to present himself to the public, break the barrier of fear, appear before him and get acquainted with his reactions, indicating that the institute’s professors have held many workshops specialized in arts Performing and dealing with theater and each student according to the instrument he plays.
Maestro Fathallah indicated that the institute’s outputs are based on presenting soloists, singers and professionals to then choose their path, and by that the institute will provide them with all its capabilities and capabilities, whether sensory, scientific theory or practical, and through which the student is able to play in front of the audience and convince them.
For his part, the scientific agent of the institute, Marwan Abu Jahjah, explained that the musical evenings that are concerned with the institute’s outstanding students and graduates are an annual tradition that comes as the culmination of the end of the semester and is often held at Dar Al-Assad for Culture and Arts, indicating that last year it was decided to hold evenings for all departments of the institute for students with a score of 70 marks and above. At the institute’s headquarters, where 6 various evenings will be held this year, with the aim of introducing the audience to the students ’products, testing their capabilities and working on their evaluation.
The professor of oriental singing at the institute, singer Linda Bitar said, “Every year the student at the institute makes a certain development in his academic career to become more mature in music and beautiful to present to his friends and family and to the public the development that he achieves during each academic year,” expressing her happiness and optimism with her students and the excellence, diligence and commitment they offer despite all The conditions in which they live.
It is noteworthy that the Higher Institute of Music was established in 1990 and contains eight departments: the Department of Stringed Instruments, Wind and Percussion Instruments, the Department of Piano, Arabic Music, Orchestral Performance and Choral, the Department of Chamber Music and Classical Singing, and the Department of Theoretical Sciences.
Rasha Mahfoud