Silk Road artists biographies

Abeer Nehme, is a renowned International Crossover Singer. Her musical talents were hard to miss even at a very tender age. Throughout the years, Abeer acquired knowledge in musicology and the theories of Arabic, Western and Religious music (Aramaic) to reach very advanced levels. She is known for her exquisite talents in performing different music styles with great ease and professionalism. She performs Opera, Western Music, Arabic Traditional Tarab, traditional Middle Eastern folks, AraboAndalusian songs and Ancient Syriac and Maronite chants. She sings in more than fourteen different languages including traditional Iranian, Greek, Kurd, Armenian, Turkish, Spanish and Portuguese.



Charbel Rouhana is Born in Amchit, Lebanon in 1965, has a diploma in oud performance (1986) and MA in musicology (1987) from the Faculty of Music at the Holy-Spirit University, Kaslik (USEK)* He is an Author of a new method of playing the oud; and a Oud teacher at USEK and at the National Conservatory of Music (1992- 2006)



Marco Polo naquit à Venise en 1254. Son père, Niccolò, et son oncle, Mafféo, commerçants réputés, ont voyagé jusqu’à la capitale du grand Khan de l’empire mongol, Kūbilaï Khān, en 1266. Au printemps de 1269, pendant leur retour en Méditerranée, les deux frères se présentèrent devant le pape Grégoire X à l’Acre de Palestine et lui communiquèrent l’intérêt vif de Kūbilaï Khān pour le christianisme. Kūbilaï avait en effet demandé une centaine de prêtres et le plus sacré parmi les reliques chrétiens: un peu d’huile venant de la lampe du sépulcre de Jésus, ayant pour but de convertir ses ressortissants au christianisme. Pour leur nouveau voyage vers l’extrême Orient les deux frères ont pris avec eux Marco, un adolescent âgé de quinze ans. Ils arrivèrent au palais du grand Khan six ans plus tard, après un voyage aventureux, en ramenant au grand Khan l’huile bénite et les lettres du pape Grégoire. Marco est resté environ dix-sept ans au pays lointain et avec le temps il gagna la faveur de l’empereur en devenant son conseiller le plus proche. Il a même voyagé plusieurs fois en tant qu’envoyé du Khan afin de résoudre des affaires commerciales ou politiques de son vaste empire.



Lubnan Baalbaki was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1981 in a family of artists. With great musical talent and special interest in the art of music he studied violin at the National Conservatory of Music in Beirut. He was licensed in Orchestral Conducting in 2009 at the National Academy of Music „Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj-Napoca, under the musical guidance of Maestro Petre Sbârcea, former student of Sergiu Celibidache and Franco Ferrara. He obtained the master of arts degree at the National University of Music in Bucharest, in the class of Maestro Horia Andreescu. At the present time he is PhD within the same university, having Prof. Univ. Dr. Dan Dediu as a coordinator. The PhD studies are shaping the work upon the subject of „The Psychology of the Conductor – Orchestra Relationship”, which gained him an Erasmus training agreement at the Opera am Rhein in Dusseldorf.