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With his charming melodies, music spoke and traveled through his shrines in the worlds of love, passion, creativity, and pleasure to international theaters, within a tale of love for melodious strings that played oriental and western melodies with a unique blend that simulates different artistic tastes. It is the Damascene oud between the fingertips of the Syrian author and musician Kinan Adnawi.
Adnawi raised controversy in the world of musical creativity and its practical application when he pursued a different path in playing the Damascene oud, whose specialty in his academic studies was to make it an oriental instrument that plays Western melodies, and mixed with different musical instruments from its usual character in concerts on Arab and Western theatres.
And he presented special musical compositions of his own making, which transformed the oud player from (a solo) classical soloist into a creative player capable of performing different musical genres combined with Arabic instruments, as well as Western instruments such as the clarinet, harp, saxophone and organ, which gave the orchestras an additional sound and a different and distinctive performance on the The level of the orchestras he played with, and this was explained by Adnawi in an interview with SANA reporter.
Adnawy indicated that the academic study provided him with added value technically and artistically, which created in him a creative spirit that was embodied in his improvisational project that included various musical melodies, and with bands and orchestras playing jazz and other international music in India, Morocco, Egypt, Austria, the Balkans and the US states.
Adnawy reviewed his artistic achievement, including the music album he recently released, entitled “Aura”, in which he presented classical pieces of music on the oud instrument with all its inherited oriental specificity. Like the organ.
Likewise, the tones of the oud mixed with the harp instrument in a distinguished experience with the able musician Rahaf Sheikhani, and he also presented a beautiful dialogue with Indian instruments and with the piano and clarinet, which contributed to the journey of the Damascene oud to Western and Arab theaters, to compete with his presence of many musical instruments, and he also finished the final stages of the album New music will be released soon with a group of audio pieces and improvisational arrangements.
(The oud is an important part of my personality, and its feather has accompanied me since my early childhood). With these words, Adnawi drew attention to the state of intellectual and emotional communication that brings him together with the strings of the oud, indicating that playing for him is a translation of the feelings and thoughts that afflict his heart and a state of sensory harmony with his surroundings, which created in him a passion to preserve On the Syrian cultural approach to the Oud, and working to develop it in various forms that made it present in large parts of the regions.
The author, Adnawi, mentioned that the Arab musical heritage, in both its lyrical and instrumental parts, can be a bridge of communication between it and the young audience that accepts music effectively, stressing that the task of the musician now has become great, because the players of oriental instruments have mixed with the programs offered by international players and been influenced by them, so the player is currently able Provided that he puts the instrument that he provides in the place that suits it and in the correct frame.
About his career, Adnawi mentioned that he is the son of the city of Latakia, that he belongs to a musical family, and his older brother, Muammar Adnawi, was his first teacher, and he imbibed his sweet melodies with love and passion for his strings. Professors specializing in the oud and musical theories.
He was famous for his various improvisations on the oud instrument. He graduated from the institute in 2008, then obtained a master’s degree in contemporary music from the American University of Boston in 2016. He soon joined bands and musicians, and gave concerts with them in different places, perhaps the most prominent of which is the “Faces” band for oriental music, and the national symphony band. .
Adnawi won many awards, including first place in the International Oud Competition at the University of the Holy Spirit in 2009 in Lebanon, second place in the Carthage Musical Days in Tunisia in 2010, and he also won first place in the International Oud Competition in Lebanon.
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