On stage and in the studio in Beirut since 1994 — with Julia Boutros, Hiba Tawaji, Ziad Rahbani, Charbel Rouhana, and the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Selected recordings
Ten albums, one line each.
- “Al Karar” — Julia Boutros
- “La B’ahlemak” — Julia Boutros
- “Hiba Tawaji 30” — Hiba Tawaji / Oussama Rahbani (several solo features)
- “La Bidayi Wla Nihayi” — Hiba Tawaji / Oussama Rahbani (several solo features)
- “Mazaj Alani” — Charbel Rouhana (solo feature on “13 July”)
- “Ya” — Omayma Khalil
- “Transmigration” — Makram Aboul Hosn
- “Beirut Jazz 2020” — Joelle Khoury
- “World Music from Lebanon Vol. 1” — Ghazi Abdel Baki
- The R.E.G. Project — Guy Manoukian
Also on record with Ziad Rahbani, Majida Roumi, Carole Samaha, Ragheb Alama, Paul Salem, Ibrahim Jaber, Omar Rahbani, and many others as a session musician.
The Résidence des Pins album
One album recorded at the Résidence des Pins, Beirut — the French ambassador’s residence — with Ambassador Patrice Paoli, himself a musician.
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Performance history
Montana → Berlin (1985–1989)
Jazz trio summers at Glacier National Park; then the 298th US Army Band, Berlin, 1987–89 — concert bands, big bands, and jazz combos across Europe during the last years of the Wall.
Paris → Euro Disney (1989–1993)
Jazz and fusion ensembles in Paris; the New York Hotel Orchestra at the opening of Euro Disney; Holland America cruise orchestras.
Beirut (1994– )
First concert with Julia Boutros at Beiteddine Palace, 1994. A decade of tours across the Middle East and Europe — Bosra, Tyre (50,000), Beaufort Castle (70,000), Carthage, Amman for Queen Noor. Regular soloist with the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra from its 2000 debut, including televised features in Bolero, L’Arlésienne, and Pictures at an Exhibition. Founded the region’s first standing 14-piece big band (2003). With Charbel Rouhana: Copenhagen’s Jazz House, Prague, Bordeaux, Weimar, Cairo, Kuwait, Dubai — and in 2019, the first public jazz saxophone performance in Saudi Arabia. Television: LBC, Future TV, MTV, Al Jazeera, Télé Liban, and others.
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The full archive
The complete 1985–2021 performance timeline, with video links.