\n<\/strong>Zaid Jabri is a Syrian-Polish composer and educator. Born in Damascus into a family deeply engaged in the arts and developing an early interest in music, he became attuned to various musical traditions, both regional and beyond. His compositional interests include chamber, orchestral, vocal and electro-acoustic music. His music has been performed around the world and he has lived and worked in various countries on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n
Education Career He taught at the Academy of Music in Krak\u00f3w from 2008 to 2015, holding thereafter positions in various institutions around the world. He was a Weiss International Visiting Scholar at Barnard College in 2016, a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University in 2016-2017, and a resident composer at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2017-2018. He also held a Fellowship at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at the Columbia Global Center in Paris in 2018-2019 and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University in 2019-2020. In 2024, he joined the University of Silesia as an assistant professor, where he contributes to academic and artistic initiatives in contemporary music.<\/p>\n Jabri is committed to supporting emerging musicians and composers, serving as a jury member for numerous composition competitions, including the Adam Didur Composers\u2019 Competition, the 2 Agosto Composition Competition, the Gaudeamus Award, and other competitions held by the MATA Festival, the AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts and Culture), Bilgi University, and the Gda\u0144sk Academy of Music.<\/p>\n He has lectured at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York, Harvard University in Boston, Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w, Bilgi University in Istanbul, the Gda\u0144sk Academy of Music, American University in Cairo, the Onassis Centre in Athens, Alwan for the Arts in New York, the University of Victoria in Canada, and Merrimack College in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n Compositions His compositions have been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as Kremerata Baltica, the English Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Zerafin, the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra. His Clarinet Concerto<\/em> was recorded by the Deutsches Symphonie\u2011Orchester Berlin.<\/p>\n Recent works demonstrate the breadth of his compositional interests and include A Garden Among the Flames<\/em> (for soprano, baritone, children\u2019s choir, mixed choir, and symphony orchestra), premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2018; Altum<\/em> (for cello and accordion); Variation on (R)evolution<\/em> (for mezzo-soprano, violin, and piano), premiered in Beethovenfest in Bonn in 2018, and Glyptos 2<\/em> (for tape, flute, clarinet, trumpet, piano, violin, and bass), premiered in the inaugural concert of the Department for Middle Eastern Music at Brunel University in London. His newest CD features works for acoustic instruments and electronics, including Concerto for Cello and Electronics<\/em>, The Loneliness of Egrets<\/em> for <\/em>oboe and electronics, and Fantasia<\/em> for guitar, piano, and live electronics.<\/p>\n Four scenes of his first opera Cities of Salt<\/em>, based on the novel by Abdulrahman Munif, with a libretto by Yvette Christians\u00eb and Rosalind Morris, were presented at the Royal Opera House\u2019s Linbury Theatre in July 2015.<\/p>\n His most recent opera Southern Crossing<\/em> was premiered at the Gerald Lynch Theater in New York in 2022.<\/p>\n Awards In addition to winning the 1997 Adam Didur Composers\u2019 Competition for Two Songs for Soprano and String <\/em>Orchestra, he received the second prize at the 2012 2 Agosto Competition in Bologna for Les Temps des pierres<\/em>, and he was awarded the Special Prize for Chamber Music at the Citt<\/em>\u00e0 <\/em>di Udine<\/em> Competition in Italy in 2023 for his Prelude and Adagio in memoriam Krzysztof Penderecki<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n Og<\/strong>\u00f3<\/strong>lne informacje Edukacja Kariera W latach 2008\u20132015 wyk\u0142ada\u0142 na Akademii Muzycznej w Krakowie, a nast\u0119pnie pe\u0142ni\u0142 funkcje w r\u00f3\u017cnych instytucjach na \u015bwiecie. By\u0142 m.in. Weiss International Visiting Scholar w Barnard College w 2016 roku, Radcliffe Fellow na Uniwersytecie Harvarda w latach 2016\u20132017 oraz kompozytorem\u2011rezydentem na Norweskim Uniwersytecie Nauki i Technologii w latach 2017\u20132018. Otrzyma\u0142 tak\u017ce stypendium w Institute for Ideas and Imagination w Columbia Global Center w Pary\u017cu w latach 2018\u20132019 oraz by\u0142 Postdoctoral Fellow na Uniwersytecie Columbia w latach 2019\u20132020.<\/p>\n W 2024 roku do\u0142\u0105czy\u0142 do Uniwersytetu \u015al\u0105skiego jako adiunkt, gdzie wsp\u00f3\u0142tworzy inicjatywy akademickie i artystyczne w zakresie muzyki wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej.<\/p>\n Jabri aktywnie wspiera m\u0142odych muzyk\u00f3w i kompozytor\u00f3w, zasiadaj\u0105c w jury wielu konkurs\u00f3w kompozytorskich, m.in. Konkursu im. Adama Didura, Konkursu 2 Agosto, Gaudeamus Award oraz konkurs\u00f3w organizowanych przez MATA Festival, AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts and Culture), Uniwersytet Bilgi i Akademi\u0119 Muzyczn\u0105 w Gda\u0144sku.<\/p>\n Prowadzi\u0142 wyk\u0142ady m.in. w Barnard College i Columbia University w Nowym Jorku, na Uniwersytecie Harvarda w Bostonie, na Uniwersytecie Jagiello\u0144skim w Krakowie, Uniwersytecie Bilgi w Stambule, Akademii Muzycznej w Gda\u0144sku, American University w Kairze, w Onassis Centre w Atenach, w Alwan for the Arts w Nowym Jorku, na University of Victoria w Kanadzie oraz w Merrimack College w Massachusetts.<\/p>\n Kompozycje Jego kompozycje by\u0142y zamawiane i wykonywane przez zespo\u0142y takie jak Kremerata Baltica, English Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Zerafin, Orkiestra Teatro Comunale w Bolonii, Polska Orkiestra Radiowa, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Orkiestra Filharmonii Ormia\u0144skiej, Orkiestra Filharmonii Sofijskiej oraz Syryjska Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna. Jego Koncert klarnetowy zosta\u0142 nagrany przez Deutsches Symphonie\u2011Orchester Berlin.<\/p>\n Najnowsze utwory ukazuj\u0105 szeroki zakres jego zainteresowa\u0144 kompozytorskich i obejmuj\u0105 m.in. A Garden Among the Flames (na sopran, baryton, ch\u00f3r dzieci\u0119cy, ch\u00f3r mieszany i orkiestr\u0119 symfoniczn\u0105), prawykonany w Carnegie Hall w 2018 roku; Altum (na wiolonczel\u0119 i akordeon); Variation on (R)evolution (na mezzosopran, skrzypce i fortepian), prawykonany na Beethovenfest w Bonn w 2018 roku; oraz Glyptos 2 (na ta\u015bm\u0119, flet, klarnet, tr\u0105bk\u0119, fortepian, skrzypce i kontrabas), prawykonany podczas koncertu inauguracyjnego Department for Middle Eastern Music na Brunel University w Londynie.<\/p>\n Jego najnowsza p\u0142yta zawiera utwory na instrumenty akustyczne i elektronik\u0119, w tym Concerto for Cello and Electronics, The Loneliness of Egrets na ob\u00f3j i elektronik\u0119 oraz Fantasia na gitar\u0119, fortepian i elektronik\u0119 na \u017cywo.<\/p>\n Cztery sceny z jego pierwszej opery Cities of Salt, opartej na powie\u015bci Abdulrahmana Munifa, z librettem Yvette Christians\u00eb i Rosalind Morris, zosta\u0142y zaprezentowane w Linbury Theatre Royal Opera House w lipcu 2015 roku.<\/p>\n Jego najnowsza opera Southern Crossing mia\u0142a premier\u0119 w Gerald Lynch Theater w Nowym Jorku w 2022 roku.<\/p>\n Nagrody Opr\u00f3cz zwyci\u0119stwa w Konkursie im. Adama Didura w 1997 roku za Two Songs for Soprano and String Orchestra, zdoby\u0142 drug\u0105 nagrod\u0119 w Konkursie 2 Agosto w Bolonii w 2012 roku za Les Temps des pierres, a w 2023 roku otrzyma\u0142 Nagrod\u0119 Specjaln\u0105 za muzyk\u0119 kameraln\u0105 w Konkursie Citt\u00e0 di Udine we W\u0142oszech za Prelude and Adagio in memoriam Krzysztof Penderecki. \r\n [vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row] […]<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Jabri began his formal musical training in early age, studying violin in Damascus. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the Academy of Music in Krak\u00f3w, where he completed his M.A. degree with distinction under Zbigniew Bujarski. He subsequently pursued doctoral studies, earning his doctorate in 2014 under Krzysztof Penderecki.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Jabri\u2019s international recognition began during his studies, when he won the Adam Didur Composers\u2019 Competition in Sanok in 1997 for Two Songs for Soprano and String Orchestra<\/em>. In 2007, he was appointed Artist\/Composer\u2011in\u2011Residence at the Istanbul Bilgi University Music Department during Polish Music Week.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Jabri\u2019s works have been performed widely across Europe, North America, and the Middle East, including in Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Syria, Tunisia, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Ukraine. His music has been featured at numerous international festivals, among them the MATA Festival (New York), the SALT New Music Festival (Victoria, Canada), the Mediterranean Voices Project (Stuttgart), the Oriental Landscape Festival (Damascus), the Musiikin Aika Festival (Helsinki), ECLAT (Stuttgart), the Modern Music Festival (Kyiv), the Ravenna Festival, the Festival of Polish Premieres of Contemporary Music (Katowice), the Warsaw Autumn Festival, and the Royal Opera House in London.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Zaid Jabri has received numerous prestigious fellowships and residencies. In 2011 was admitted to the Polish Composers\u2019 Union (KZP). He has been awarded the George Evans Memorial Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2014), the Tactus Young Composers Forum Residency in Belgium (2012), a residential fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s Bellagio Center (2015), and MacDowell in New Hampshire (2016).<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Zaid Jabri jest syryjsko\u2011polskim kompozytorem i pedagogiem. Urodzony w Damaszku w rodzinie g\u0142\u0119boko zwi\u0105zanej ze sztuk\u0105 i wcze\u015bnie zainteresowany muzyk\u0105, od m\u0142odych lat oswaja\u0142 si\u0119 z r\u00f3\u017cnymi tradycjami muzycznymi \u2013 zar\u00f3wno regionalnymi, jak i spoza regionu. Jego zainteresowania kompozytorskie obejmuj\u0105 muzyk\u0119 kameraln\u0105, orkiestrow\u0105, wokaln\u0105 oraz elektroakustyczn\u0105. Jego utwory by\u0142y wykonywane na ca\u0142ym \u015bwiecie, a sam mieszka\u0142 i pracowa\u0142 w wielu krajach po obu stronach Atlantyku.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Jabri rozpocz\u0105\u0142 formaln\u0105 edukacj\u0119 muzyczn\u0105 w m\u0142odym wieku, studiuj\u0105c gr\u0119 na skrzypcach w Damaszku. Po uko\u0144czeniu szko\u0142y \u015bredniej zosta\u0142 przyj\u0119ty do Akademii Muzycznej w Krakowie, gdzie uko\u0144czy\u0142 studia magisterskie z wyr\u00f3\u017cnieniem pod kierunkiem Zbigniewa Bujarskiego. Nast\u0119pnie kontynuowa\u0142 studia doktoranckie, uzyskuj\u0105c stopie\u0144 doktora w 2014 roku pod opiek\u0105 Krzysztofa Pendereckiego.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Mi\u0119dzynarodowe uznanie Jabri zdoby\u0142 ju\u017c w czasie studi\u00f3w, kiedy w 1997 roku wygra\u0142 Konkurs Kompozytorski im. Adama Didura w Sanoku za Two Songs for Soprano and String Orchestra. W 2007 roku zosta\u0142 Artyst\u0105\/Kompozytorem\u2011Rezydentem w Instytucie Muzyki Uniwersytetu Bilgi w Stambule podczas Tygodnia Muzyki Polskiej.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Utwory Jabri by\u0142y wykonywane szeroko w Europie, Ameryce P\u00f3\u0142nocnej i na Bliskim Wschodzie, m.in. w Belgii, Kanadzie, Egipcie, Francji, Niemczech, Grecji, Islandii, W\u0142oszech, Holandii, Polsce, Rosji, Syrii, Tunezji, Wielkiej Brytanii, Zjednoczonych Emiratach Arabskich, Stanach Zjednoczonych i na Ukrainie. Jego muzyka by\u0142a prezentowana na licznych festiwalach mi\u0119dzynarodowych, m.in. MATA Festival (Nowy Jork), SALT New Music Festival (Victoria, Kanada), Mediterranean Voices Project (Stuttgart), Oriental Landscape Festival (Damaszek), Musiikin Aika Festival (Helsinki), ECLAT (Stuttgart), Modern Music Festival (Kij\u00f3w), Ravenna Festival, Festiwal Polskich Prawykona\u0144 Muzyki Wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej (Katowice), Warszawska Jesie\u0144 oraz w Royal Opera House w Londynie.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Zaid Jabri otrzyma\u0142 liczne presti\u017cowe stypendia i rezydencje. W 2011 roku zosta\u0142 przyj\u0119ty do Zwi\u0105zku Kompozytor\u00f3w Polskich (ZKP). Otrzyma\u0142 m.in. George Evans Memorial Fellowship w Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2014), Tactus Young Composers Forum Residency w Belgii (2012), stypendium rezydencjalne w Bellagio Center Fundacji Rockefellera (2015) oraz stypendium w MacDowell w New Hampshire (2016).<\/p>\n![\"img\"](\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/instytut\/ismuz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/Bez-kategorii\/file.jpg\")
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