Writing or playing music for an unaccompanied instrument can be considered as a monophonic kind of music, an ancient type that humans have always practiced.
Despite all the various phases of evolution that occurred in life and music, the monophony continues to exist and progress throughout time, and one of the reasons for this is that it is the echo of our inner sound, the sound of “Nature”.
Playing or writing music for an unaccompanied flute seems to be a simple task, yet it is hard to tackle. The performer faces tough challenges to recreate from his limited instrument all the musical motives, ideas, and atmospheres that can eventuate a solid accomplished musical text.

(Nabil Mroueh)


Program:
Bach: Partita in A minor
Telemann: Fantasy no. 6
Debussy: Syrinx
Honegger: Dance de la chevre
Varese: Density 21.5
Jolivet: Incantaion
Gelalian: Quatre Jeux
Piazzola: Tango-Etudes no.3 & 4

Nabil Mroueh began his musical studies in Lebanon with his uncle Nizar Mroueh and André Abu-Sawan as flute instructor.

In 1986 went on a scholarship to Kiev, Ukraine to pursue an academic study of music. He studied flute; first at Kiev Musical College Glier and after at the Tchaikovsky Higher Conservatory of Music in Kiev, under Oleg Kudriashov, where he got his Master Degree as a flute player in 1994. Mroueh attended many workshops supervised by Wissam Boustany and Jean-Pierre Rampal held in Lebanon.

He has performed many recitals in Lebanon and abroad that have included various musical works and recorded his first CD “Sounds from the Other River-side” in spring 2008. He is currently a flute professor at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music and a member of the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra.