Brooklyn Arts Council

Abdullah graduated from the Institute of Classical Music, with a specialization in both Western and Arab violin, from his native city of Aleppo, Syria. Known for its listening community with scrupulous aesthetic standards for Arab music, Aleppo (Halab) produces a repertoire of Halabi and Tarab songs and singers such as Sabah El Fakhry. While in Syria, Abdullah played from this repertoire and while on tour with the Halabi vocalist Shadi Jamil in 1990 came to the US to stay. Abdullah continues to play violin in the Syrian repertoire, particularly at Syrian Jewish music events in the Ocean Parkway corridor of Brooklyn. He is one of the few very talented local violinists to perform pan-Arab styles and songs at Arab nightclubs, concerts and parties in the Tristate area.

Mohamed Abdullah

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