Website josephtawadros.com Occupation(s) musician/composer Name Joseph Tawadros | Siblings James Tawadros Years active 1995—present | |
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Genres jazz, World music, Classical Albums Chameleon of The White Shadow Similar People Richard Tognetti, Matt McMahon, Slava Grigoryan, Christopher Moore, Anouar Brahem | ||
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Joseph Tawadros (born 1983 in Cairo, Egypt) is a Coptic Australian oud virtuoso. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2012 he won Best World Music Album for Concerto of the Greater Sea, he won the same category in 2013 for Chameleons of the White Shadow and in 2014 for Permission to Evaporate.
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- Joseph tawadros give or take live aim
- Joseph tawadros constantinople
- Biography
- Style
- Albums
- Musical scores
- References
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Biography
His family emigrated from Egypt to Australia when he was three. Initially attracted to the trumpet, he decided to learn oud when he was eight, after seeing a movie about Egypt's famous musicien, Sayed Darwish. He is classically trained, having completed a bachelor of music at the University of New South Wales, where he was awarded a Freedman Fellowship for Classical Music. In the 2000s, he also studied in Egypt with violin player Esawi Dagher, son of the legendary violin player Abdo Dagher. During the years that followed, he spent three months a year in Egypt and learned to play other instruments: the bamboo flute nay, the Arabic zither qanun and the cello. He won the Australian Recording Industry Award in 2012 for the Best World Music Album. He had been nominated nine times before, without winning. He won it again in 2013 and 2014.
Style
Joseph Tawadros’style is described as very eclectic. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, "he has taken the oud out of its traditional Middle Eastern setting and into the realm of classical music and jazz". "I don't like to play in a particulare genre, I love all sorts of music", Tawadros explains. "I try to record an album a year and one that's totally different from the previous album". He has collaborated with musicians such as John Abercrombie, Jack DeJohnette, Roy Ayers, Bela Fleck, Joey DeFrancesco, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and The Academy of Ancient Music.
Joseph Tawadros plays 52 instruments on his album World Music (including oud, qanun, saz, violin, ney, Portuguese guitar, electric bass, kalimba and accordion) and his brother James 11 percussion instruments.
Albums
Musical scores
Music scores composed for the following films: