TRADITIONAL RENEWAL BEIRUT debut Fadia Tomb El-Hage voice (Beirut) performs Middle Eastern Music with Gilbert Yammine  qanoun (Beirut, Ulm) and Nader Morcos percussion (Beirut, Paris) Fadia El-Hage is considered by the international press as one of the most beautiful voices of the Arab world. Founder with her two sisters of the vocal Trio « TriOrient » devoted to the interpretation of traditional songs of the Lebanese inheritance (sacred and secular) and middle-Eastern (old folklore, mouashahat, etc), a cappella or with instrumental accompaniment, in unison and in polyphony. In 1984, she graduated from the University of Lebanon with a degree in psychology.  She traveled to Germany where she continued her studies with Felix Rolke (1984-1992) at Richard Strauss Conservatory of Munich, obtaining her State diploma of opera performance in 1990 and achieved a further two years specialization in oratorio repertoire. Her first performance as soloist in Germany was the world premiere of the six "Lieder" of the composer Alfred von Beckerath at Augsburg.  The concert was recorded by the radio of Stuttgart (1988). Since 1990, Fadia El-Hage is the favorite soloist of the ensemble "Sarband", specialized in medieval and Mediterranean music under the direction of the German composer and musicologist Dr. Vladimir Ivanoff. “Sarband” ensemble is one of the world’s most famous in this tradition. Since 1987, Fadia El-Hage performed, with "Sarband", or alone more than 200 concerts in many international festivals and the most prestigious concert halls in particular in Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Holland, Sweden, Greece, England, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Canada, the U.S.A., Bulgaria, Turkey, Estonia, Canary Islands, Morocco, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, on invitation of private organizations or within the framework of prestigious European festivals of classical music, Mediterranean, Eastern, religious, ethnic or medieval. Since 2000, Fadia El-Hage inspired Lebanese or European composers who wrote for her voice in Arabic, Latin, Syrian, German and French. Since then, she decided to devote a great part of her time to the music of today. To name a few: Zad Moultaka, Marcel Khalife, Valentino Miserachs, Iyad Kenaan; Joachim Brackx, Wim Hendrickx, Houtaf Khoury, Patricia Hontoir and Joëlle Khoury. In Lebanon, Fadia El-Hage performed several concerts in the most prestigious festivals of Lebanon, in particular the International Festival of Baalbeck (1998, 2000 and 2005); the International Festival of Beiteddine (2002) and, the same year, the King's Singers invited her to be their guest to their concert at Festival Al-Bustan. In the years 2008 & 2009, amongst other works, she will be performing about 80 concerts in “Origin”, with choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, in various theaters all over Europe. Gilbert Yammine began his studies in qanoun and music at the age of 10 at the National Higher Conservatory of Music in Beirut. In 2000, he graduated with excellence and became a member and a soloist of the National Lebanese Orchestra for Arabic-Oriental Music. In 2003, he was named professor of qanoun at the Conservatory of Beirut. In 2005, he participated in the international "Al Boustan" festival held in Lebanon with his trio (qanoun – oud – riqq), as well as concerts around the Arab world and Europe. Being influenced by the Turkish technique of playing the qanoun which involves using ten fingers, he is credited as the first qanoun player in Lebanon to have evolved the instrument's technique by introducing the Turkish method into the arabic-oriental style of playing. Since his moving to Germany in 2007, he has become a member of “L’Ensemble de la Paix” in Paris, with which he tours Europe ccompanying the renowned Lebanese singer S. Marie Keyrouz. In summer 2007, he took part in a workshop for contemporary music in Paris. There, he had the opportunity to merge two different worlds of music: traditional melodic and contemporary atonal. At present, he is pursuing his higher education in the University of Ulm, Germany. Nader Morcos is already in his young age a master of the oriental drum (darbukka, riqq). Since 2005 he plays concerts and at music festivals in the Near East and France. He learned his instruments at the National Higher Conservatory of Music in Beirut and gave lessons at various music schools in Lebanon. Since 2007 he studies Ethnology of Music in Paris.