DeutschMohamad Fityan
Nay, kawala
Mohamad Fityan (b. 1 August 1984 in Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian musician and composer known for his exceptional mastery of the nay and kawala. He studied under Mohamad Kassas and Berj Kassis, completing his studies at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus in 2009/2010. As early as 2002 and 2003, he was honoured as best nay player and best conductor respectively at the Contest of Syrian Youth Musicians, and in 2005 he became the first nay soloist to perform at the opening concert of the Syrian Jazz Big Band Orchestra in the Citadel of Damascus. Until 2013, he was a soloist with the Syrian Arabic Music Orchestra and the Syrian Jazz Big Band. In 2014, Fityan fled the civil war in his homeland and came to Berlin, where he has lived and worked ever since. He has performed with numerous international orchestras, including the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, and the Sarband Ensemble, and in 2016 founded his own band, "Fityan," with three German musicians, releasing their debut EP "Oriental Space." Alongside his concert work, Fityan is also active as a music teacher and, in 2016, wrote the first trilingual teaching curriculum for nay and kawala.
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