Hamza El Din

Hamza El Din ( * July 10, 1929 in Toshka near Wadi Halfa, † 22 May, 2006 Berkeley / California ) was an Egyptian Oud and Tar player and singer.

Hamza El Din grew up in Upper Egypt on the border with Sudan in the village Toshta, where he was under the impression traditional Nubian music. He studied at King Fouad University in Cairo and at the Music Institute of Ibrahim Shafiq. At the King Fouad Institute for Central Eastern music he learned to play the oud game, after which he studied Western music at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

In the early 1960s he undertook first concert tours throughout the United States, where he moved in 1964, after his hometown was lost in the waters of the dammed by the Aswan High Dam Lake Nasser. The Water Wheel ( 1971), which is considered a key work of world music and had an influence on composers such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley: Here Album Escalay arose. In addition to his concert tours and recordings he taught ethnomusicology and Others at Ohio University, the University of Washington and the University of Texas.

In the 1980s, El Din held on in Japan to study the Biwa. After that he settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he in 1992 with the Kronos Quartet listing a processing Escalay and 1999 recorded his last album.

Discography

  • Music of Nubia with Ahmed Abdul- Malik, Sandy Bull, 1964
  • Al Oud, 1965
  • Escalay: The Water Wheel, 1971
  • Eclipse, 1978
  • A Song of the Nile, 1982
  • Lily of the Nile, 1995
  • Available Sound - Darius, 1996
  • Muwashshah, 1996
  • A Wish with Amy Cyr, Joan Jeanrenaud, W. A. Mathieu, Shizuru Ohtaka, 1999
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