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Charbel Rouhana was born in Lebanon in 1965. He is an Oud Master (1986) and
a graduate of the University of Holy Spirit in Kaslik at Musicology (1987).
He teaches the Oud at the National Music
Conservatoire and the Institute of Music which is a department of the
University of Holy Spirit. Being an oud teacher, but especially a devoted
oud lover, he went through long research and experiments to come up with a
new method of teaching the oud.
With
“Zikra”
(1993) his first album he proved that he is a skillful musician and a
successful composer. His second album,
“Salamat”
(Greetings), was released in 1997, with 12 diverse pieces of music, ranging
from traditional to modern while a year later (1998)
“Mada”
was released: a collaboration with the Lebanese musician Hani Siblini,
“Majar
Alani”
was his forth album (2000). In 2001, C. Rouhana composed the
“Arabic
Women Court”,
inspired by a Mahmoud Darwich’s poem,
“Mouhammad
Al Durrah”.
His group members have been working together for many years.
During the same period, he collaborated with the Lebanese choreograph Abdul
Halim Caracalla for some of his performances:
“Elissa,
Queen of Carthage”
(1995),
“Andalusia,
the Lost Glory”
(1997) and
“Bi
Laylat Qamar”
(1999).
Their perpetual main concern is to create a music, which is closely related
to their Arabic roots and at the same time open to the whole world.
Some significant moments in his career for him are when he won the 1st
Award
“Hirayama
Competition”
in Japan (1990) for the
“Hymn
of Peace”,
when the Lions Club elected him the
“Musician
of the Year 2000”
and when he composed music for the opening night of
“Dubai
Shopping Festival”
(February 2002).
He has participated in many festivals, including Al Medina Festival in
Tunisia (1997), Al Boustan Festival (1995), Belfort Festival (1999) in the 2nd
Oud Festival in Tatwan, Morocco (2000) and in the 10th
Francophonie Métissée Festival, in Paris, France (2001), and he has played
in concerts in Abu Dhabi and Dubai (2000).
He has collaborated with Zakir Hussain, Hariprasad Chaurasia, George Brooks,
Larry Coryell, and Marcel Khalife.
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