Music

The Artist Of The Month

Anass Murad

In its continuous search for Syrian new artistic talents, Musicsyria went to meet with musician Anass Murad. Born in Sahba – Swaida in 1986, he was only ten years old when his love for music began. At first he was only listening to popular musicians like Yani and Marcel Khalifa, but at the tender age of ten, he started private tuition to play the lute by Adham Obeid, considered to be an excellent musician and one of the best players of the instrument in Syria. He continued his musical training under the direction of Kamal Sekeikar, a composer and teacher at the High Institute of Music in Damascus as well as the solo player with the Easter Orchestra.

Anass Mourad has developed his world around music and the effects music has on him. He believes that music is the sediment resulting from all mental and emotional processes. Music has a very private side and this is why music is felt in a different way by each listener.

Seclusion

Music also needs seclusion to be created and played. Seclusion is necessary for the composer can purify his/her feelings isolated from the surrounding chaotic world and transform feelings into music.

Composition Mechanism

According to Anass Murad, his experience has taught him that the process of music composition has to undergo through two stages.  The first one is to conceive and develop the idea in the mind of the composer and the second, is for the composer to have the ability to put his own final touches to enrich this musical idea in accordance with the feelings of the artist in order to be able to convey his own emotions and sentimentality to the listener.
Playing lute should have the same principle; using both hands in a harmonious movement to achieve the goal of transferring the complex mixture of feelings and emotions to the listener.