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Ayman Jarjour, classical guitarist

Education 

Master of Music, The Juilliard School, New York (1999)
Bachelor of Music, The Royal Conservatory of Madrid, Spain (1994)

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Concerto Performance:

World Premiere. Olympus concerto for guitar and orchestra by Evis Sammoutis with the Hessle Sinfonia in 2003

Syrian premiere of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra in 1997

International Solo Concerts:
Chinatrust Bank Headquarters Building, Taipei, Taiwan
Children's Charity's Annual Benefit Concert, Formosa Regent Hotel, Taipei
The Spanish Cultural Center (Instituto Cervantes), Amman, Jordan
Goethe Institut, Bonn, Germany
The Spanish Cultural Center (Instituto Cervantes), Beirut, Lebanon
Auditorio Manuel de Falla (Conservatorio de Madrid), Madrid, Spain
The National Library, Damascus, Syria
The High Institute of Music, Damascus, Syria
The Spanish Cultural Center (Instituto Cervantes), Damascus, Syria
Solo Concerts in the US:

Salisbury State University, Maryland
Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, New York
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
The Continental Center, New York
Chamber Music Concerts:

Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
The Focus! Festival, the Juilliard Theater, New York
Cham Palace Theater, Damascus
Temple of Baal, Palmyra, Syria

Activities and Interests:

Guitar Teacher with Bromley Youth Music Trust, London since 2001
Teacher at the High Institute of Music, Damascus, Syria (1994-1997)
Fluent in Arabic, English, Spanish, French and German
Concerts and interviews featured several times on Syrian television
Played in the Juilliard productions of The Three Sisters by Chekhov and A Winter's Tale by Shakespeare

Teachers

Sharon Isbin, New York; Jose Luis Rodrigo, Madrid;
Neil Anderson, Boston; Nabil Ghrewati, Damascus.

Master Classes:

David Russell, Leo Brouwer, Alirio Diaz,
Carlos Barbosa-Lima, John Duarte.
Recordings

CD:  The Carnegie Hall Concert. A studio recording of the program performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in May 2000.

Recorded for the BBC and Cambridge University for their latest Spanish Language multimedia production in 2005 

Awards

Winner of Artists International's Special Presentation Award. Concert at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in May 2000)
Recipient of the Gluck and Jerome Greene Fellowships and the Alderman,Hustead, Cartwright and Mitzi Foundation Scholarships at Juilliard