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Mohammed Uthman Sidiq began studying music at the age of six. He continued his studies at the Music and Ballet School in Baghdad, where he obtained his diploma in piano. Mr. Sidiq is self-taught as a composer, and continued his studies in piano with Vera Barisivna at the Gnesin Institute in Moscow,... Learn More »

Mohammed Uthman Sidiq began studying music at the age of six. He continued his studies at the Music and Ballet School in Baghdad, where he obtained his diploma in piano. Mr. Sidiq is self-taught as a composer, and continued his studies in piano with Vera Barisivna at the Gnesin Institute in Moscow, where he received his MMus in 1997. He is currently the resident conductor of the Orchestra of the National Music Conservatory/Noor Al Hussein Foundation in Jordan. He is now a resident of Jordan, and his orchestral and chamber works have been performed in Europe, the Middle East and North America. As a conductor, he served as the principal conductor of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra from 1991-93. He has conducted the Orchestra of the National Conservatory of Music of the Noor al-Hussein Foundation in Amman since 1994. He has also conducted orchestras in Egypt, France, Germany, Iraq, Jordan, and the USA. Among his many honors are First Prize in the Baghdad Composition Competition (1992, for Al-Amiriyya), Grand Prize in the Arab Songs Competition in Cairo (2000, for his arrangement of the Jordanian song 'Ud Lee) and First Prize in the Jordanian Song Festival (2002, for Ya dam'i il mur). His music has been heard in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and the USA, including a performance of Memory featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma in Amman. He has taught composition, conducting, ear training, and piano at the National Conservatory of Music of the Noor al-Hussein Foundation since 1994, where he has been assistant director of academic affairs since 2000.
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