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Saifallah Ben Abderrazak was born in 1962 in Tunisia. He soon initiated his
musical studies in the violin instrument and in 1978 he got his diploma with
distinction. He continued his university studies in the field of scientific
disciplines at the University of Fez, from where he graduated in 1985.
Continuing on the same pattern of studies, he continued his higher
educational studies in France, receiving in 1986 his working permit as a
Physicist from the University of
Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) with a specialization in acoustics and sound
principles. In 1990 he started his postgraduate studies in the History of
Music and Musicology in Sorbonne. Two years later, he received his master’s
degree and after submitting his doctoral thesis, entitled as “The
contemporary Arabic Orchestras: influences from the Western organology and
difficulties of enculturation”, he also completed his PhD studies. At the
present instance, he has been teaching Organology as well as Music
Technology and Applications at the Institut Supérieur de Musique in Tunis.
With collaborations with numerous cultural organizations, he was also
Director of the Violin Laboratory at a meeting participated by the musical
schools and conservatories of the Mediterranean and organized by ECUME
(1994). Similarly, he was also the Director of the Music Ensembles of
stringed instruments of senior students of ISM. Member and speaker of many
local and international academic meetings and conferences (Centre des
Musique Arabes et Méditerranéennes – SidiBou Said, Hammamet, Testour,
Royaumont, Algeria etc), he also had the scientific and artistic
coordination of the international Meeting for Violin Les Journées du
violon in Tunis (2001).
Parallel to his academic commitment towards music and specifically violin,
Saifalllah Ben Abderrazak is still an active performer of the violin
instrument. He has been a member of the Symphonic Orchestra of Tunis, of the
State Orchestra and of other music ensembles of Western and Eastern music.
He has performed in numerous concerts both within
(Ramadan 2001, Festival de la Médina de Tunis, Hammamet etc)
and outside Tunisia (Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, France, Italy, Spain, Greece,
Belgium, Germany, Switcherland, Holland, Luxembourg, England, Island and
Norway); among his record collaborations, he has cooperated with famous and
prestigious musicians representing different kinds of music, such as
Jean Michel Jarre, Jean Luc Lahay, Khaled, Sapho, Amina, Elie Achkar
etc.
Furthermore, he has collaborated repetitively with the French
(Télévision française 3)
and Tunisian Television, while he was responsible for the setting of the
record
Paris-Dakkar-Paris
for the named rally; with Emmanuel Binet being his partner, Saifallah Ben
Abderrazak has also synthesized TV spots and advertisements |
