Mohammed Amin Ezzat

Mohammed Amin Ezzat was born in Baghdad in 1961. He graduated from the University of “Ciprian Porumbescu” in Bucharest/Romania 1984-85 with a Master of Arts in Music Composition and Orchestra Conducting.

He participated in the Festival of Young Conductors (Poshten/Romania). Directly after his graduation he conducted the Symphony Orchestra of Radio and TV, Romania. In 1989 he was appointed the first conductor of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra (I.N.S.O.). At present he is chairman of the Committee of Music Composition there. Additionally to this position he is a member of the National Committee of Music for the UNESCO, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and supervisor of the School of Music and Ballet.

	Ali Authman (*Baghdad - Iraq, 1961) Composer, director At present, he lives in Baghdad.

During his career as composer and conductor Mohammed Amin Ezzat concentrated on a lot of musical compositions and performances (Iraqi - Arabic - Global) and he conducted many compositions from different schools and ages (Baroque - Classical - Romantic - Modern – Jazz - Classic).

In 2002 he was invited by the International German Goethe Institute as guest of the German Federal Government’s visitors' program. As participant of this program he met top leaders of German orchestras and got the chance to attend concerts and to rehearse with symphony orchestras in Berlin, Munich and Bonn.

In December 2003 he conducted the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center (Washington DC). His compositions were performed at music theatres and opening concerts of several festivals, for example his work “Fragments” in three movements for orchestra from 1999, “The old days” for Solo U'd and orchestra composed in 2005 and his “Requiem” for Solo cello and string orchestra from 2006, which was played in New York 2009. This is the first project in US history to bring music by a living Iraq composer to orchestras and audiences in America. The work “Heritage vision from east to west” from 2010 is inspired by the musical heritage of Iraq. It is a mixture of Eastern and Western music and instruments.

Mohammed Amin Ezzat’s latest work „Desert Camel“ is a Suite for orchestra composed in 2011. The world premiere of this work will take place in Bonn on October 1st, 2011. This work is commissioned by Deutsche Welle and will be performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq conducted by Paul MacAlindin at the International Beethovenfest Bonn 2011.

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