Hiba Al Kawas

Hiba Al Kawas was born in Saida, Lebanon on the 17th of July 1972. She graduated from the Lebanese University with a degree in Experimental Sciences and a Bachelor Degree in Clinical Psychology.

She followed this with a Masters Degree in Operatic Chant with high distinction from the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory and a Master’s Degree in Music Composition and studies in Musicology. She has also prepared her final studies for a Diploma in Piano. She was awarded a special scholarship from the Academia di Chiggiana di Sienna in Italy where she did high studies in Opera Singing with the famous Tenor, Carlo Bergonzi and Composition with Maestro Franco Donatoni.

Ms. Al Kawas is currently a member of the board at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory and a professor of Opera Chant, and Composition there. She is a Committee member of The Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra. She is also a professor at the Lebanese University and is the Academic & Music Coordinator at the Teachers’ Training College for Music in Beirut and a member of the High National Committee of Music at UNESCO, and a member of the National Committee of UNESCO for the Sciences, Education and Culture. Also she is a member of the Intellectual Property-International Chamber of Commerce.

Ms. Al Kawas has recorded 21 works of her own composition with the Dnepropetrovsk Symphony Orchestra-Ukraine under the direction of Viascheslav Blenov. And 10 works with The Academy of Krakow Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Wojciech Czepiel. She has also recorded 13 works with The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and the National Choir of Kiev conducted by Vladimir Sirenko.