Guitaris and composer Michel Sajrawy was born to a Palestinian family from Nazareth. At the age of nine he started taking guitar lessons. During the years 1990-93 he studied for and received a diploma in electronic engineering. In 1995 he moved to London, England, where he studied and completed a one-year diploma at the Musicians' Institute – G.I.T. He began a three-year degree program in music composition at The London College of Music in 1996 under the instruction and assistance of Adam Gorb.. During the years 1999-2000 Michel furthered himself with the assistance of Adam Gorb and Nigel Clark to complete his masters degree in film and TV scoring.
In 2000 he returned to Nazareth and established his own business Dasam Studio (Dasam is a word in Arabic for “rich food”). In 2004 he recorded his debut album Yathrib, which was released in January 2006 by Ozella Music. In Yathrib he fused jazz, rock, Arabic Middle Eastern with many other things.
With his band, he played in different parts of the country, toured in Germany and played the Leipzig Jazz Festival (2006), played in Geneva, Jerusalem Festival (2007) where he met and jammed with Nigel Kennedy. He played in the Netherlands and in New York City (2008).
Michel has been awarded the Wilfred Joseph Prize (1998-99), Best Title in Music (2002) and the A. M. Qattan Foundation’s Performing Arts Grant for the year 2007.
He worked with Abboud Abdel'All, Bashir Abdel'All, Ahmad Al-Mukhtar, Samir Jubran, Alex Carpani, Manfred Leuchter, Travis Sullivan, Danny Zanker and Hector Morales. He composed music for several documentary films, arranged the music for various mini orchestral projects and produced radio jingles for the major brands in the country.
That sounds great! I know them both. Can you travel to Arab countries or will you be working with them in Jordan or Egypt? It would be nice if you could perform in Lebanon.
I wish you a Happy Easter too ! My baby Samuel doesn't sleep at night so we are tired but very happy !
Regarding the Trio and The Michel Sajrawy Group, I am looking for places to play (festivals and booking agents) but the business is very hard. I hope to have answers soon.
Hi Michel, I've heard your music on the german culture radio station "Deutschlandfunk" and I like it very much! Thank you for the friendship and best wishes from germany, Tom
Shalom Michel Sajrawy, We are happy 2 have you among our talented friends. Thank U 4 your friendship. You are invited to our next concert. Keep on the good work. Baharat
Hi Michel, All is good over here, hope you are doing fine, I really enjoyed your the videos, good stuff man, you are kicking it! Whenever it is possible we should play together... hopefully it would be sometimes soon :) all the best we stay in touch rony
Hi Michel,, The Midnight till 0400hrs session at the studio in Paderborn/Germany was much appreciated, Best Wishes and till next time in Germany, Pete...
Michel! Keefak? Just listened to Bride of the Galilee for the first time and I loved it! I love how you are playing an arabic melody and arabic scales over what is basically a minor 12 bar blues! Also watched your clip Karm el Sheikh, very exciting stuff!
Michel, listening to your demo-cd a lot, love it! I'll be back in Palestine by 10th of septembre, would be great if you come over. we could work some things out, got a lot of cd's which u might want to check...
Hey Mich, just a few months and i'll return to Palestine!!! would be nice of we would do some gigs again..... i really loved playin' on new year's eve with the whole band! so F*ckin' hot man the cd you gave me is wonderfull, i did have to get used to Hear the arabic scales over this changes, but hey why not. sounds good
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