FADI ALNAJI

FADI ALNAJI

OUD | ARABIC | VIOLIN

Fadi is a Palestinian performer and oud musician born in 1980 in Saudi Arabia. He had started learning the oud in Damascus back in 1997, and joined the Taqasim Music School in February 2013.

He has participated and played at many occasions to celebrate the Oud and its cultural influences. In 2010, Fadi wrote and performed a play called “Fareed & Frida” while studying in Exeter. In the play, he introduces the Oud as an individual character through which the human protagonists communicated. Fadi has also initiated a project called “A Musical Painting” in which he uses the Oud, piano and flute, accompanied by a vocalist to produce a musical conversation based on Middle Eastern and Western masterpieces. He is also passionate about writing lyrics and composing music and has written a few songs, one of which, “A Lover from Palestine”, is a tribute to the late poet Mahmoud Darwish.

Fadi is currently developing his own performing style where he simultaneously plays the Oud and recites poetry.