Mohammed Ali A. Hashim
(Violin, Viola)

was born in Iraq in 1959 and plays the violin and viola since the age of 12.

He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1979 (Diploma), from Baghdad Academy of Fine Arts in 1991 (BA).

1976 he joined the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra. In 1980, he worked as a music teacher
at the Institute of Fine Arts.

In 1993 he joined the faculty of the National Music Conservatory / Noor a Hussein Foundation in Jordan as a violin and viola instructor and the concertmaster of the orchestra.

He played hundreds of orchestral concerts all over the world and he attended the Osaka International Chamber Competition in 1993. He composed 25 modern songs, which were produced as a CD in Germany.

"Oder die arabische Violine -
von Mohammed Ali A. Hashim
in zurückhaltender Perfektion gespielt
- mit ihren ungewohnten Harmonien … in zärtlichem Wechselspiel mit dem singenden Cello."
Franz Szabo, Salzburger Nachrichten, April 2006


You are listening to J. S. Bach's "Erbarme Dich"
from our program "An Arabian Passion".