Elias Zazi

Elias Zazi (born 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a theorist in music, composer, teacher of music and music critic to a daily newspaper in Södertälje, Sweden.

History

Elias began his hobby as a discjockey in 1981 and two years later he won the competition "Stockholm's best DJ 1983-1984" that was arranged by the in-spot place called Studion in St. Eriksplan in Stockholm.

In 1985 his interest of Oriental music awakened. Elias Zazi who was raised in the sixties in Lebanon had already acquainted to the Arabic music and the Syriac Orthodox Church music. At the beginning of the eighties he began his studies of music and its bases. In 1994 he composed the music of "Alfo Gabe D Howelan" (lyrics by Malfono Touma Nahroyo) which became a dance piece for the theatre group Ha Nison called "Warm soup with politics". In 1995-1996 he composed "The Dream sonata" the first Syriac musical operate in two acts which played on the stage of Estrad-Södertälje in May 1996.

After the Dream sonata Zazi began his studies of the western music. He studied the western music's theories, harmony and contra-point and more, and in 1999 he accompanied his studies with sessions in composition at the composer John Lidström and wrote many small pieces and a cantata for choir song with multiple voices together with a chamber assemble, moreover he composed some melodies for different occasions. Among his works is the song of the cultural Assyrian house "Mardoutho" and the half-hour's musical program, which opened the congress of the "Democratic Social Party" which took place in Södertälje in 2000 where "Invention" and "Ema Safrone g zomrina". Zazi' latest production, “Yearning of the Dawn” for String Quartet, was performed on the stage of Estrad in Södertälje in November 2003 and was very appreciated by the audience and the critics who considered it the best of Zazi's works in the form of western music.