Charbel rouhana biography
Charbel Rouhana (Arabic: شربل روحانا) is a Lebanese oud player....
Charbel Rouhana
Lebanese musician
Musical artist
Charbel Rouhana (Arabic: شربل روحانا) is a Lebanese oud player.[1] Born in 1965 in Amsheet, a town north of Beirut, Charbel pursued his music education at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, obtaining his diploma in oud instrumentation in 1986 and his M.A.
in Musicology in 1987.[2] Rouhana is a proponent of "oud jazz", which combines Arabic oud music with a contemporary jazz backing.[3]
Discography
Studio albums
- 1997: Salamat
- 1998: Mada (with Hani Siblini)
- 2000: Mazaj Alani
- 2003: The Art of Middle Eastern Oud (out in Lebanon under the title Vice Versa)[4]
- 2004: Sourat
- 2006: Dangerous
- 2008: Handmade
- 2010: Doux Zen Oud Duet with Ellie Khoury
- 2014: Tashweesh
DVDs
- 2008: Charbel Rouhana & the Beirut Oriental Ensemble: The "Handmade" Concert
Awards
- Winner of the First Prize at the 1990 Hirayama, Japan competition for the composition “Hymn
