The music leader must have the power that enables him to lead a group of people who are linked by one work of interest to the future audience, and until all of them perform the task in an orderly manner free from randomness or chaos, so it is imperative that the strength of personality, self-confidence, and the sense of responsibility of that musical leader be embedded in that person. It is what pushes him by force to reach what he presents to the audience in an enjoyable and decent way so that he makes their hearts dance in their places from the intensity of admiration and the success of that leader depends on the psychological effect that he sends on the inside of the one who hears him, all these characteristics and others were the source of the launch and fueling the success of the music leader Mazen Draz.
Balance trade and leadership
Mazen Draz is the Maestro of the Cairo University Orchestra and the Soleisset of the Egyptian Opera House for the Division of Arab Heritage and Music, the teacher of Arabic grammar at the Higher Institute of Arabic Music and the founder of the Darz Academy of Music.
Diraz started his artistic career as a singer, and he graduated from the College of Commerce and had a talent for singing and he wanted to continue and continue this path, perhaps that is what made him join the Institute of Arab Music as a student.
The study encouraged him to search in every outlet in search of science and what is related to singing and music, so he joined at the beginning of his career many musical groups until fate wished for him to stand on the stage of the Egyptian Opera House in 2008 AD, which was a quantum leap in his artistic future and at that time he joined the Arab music band .
How did his artistic outlook change with musical study?
The Maestro of the Cairo University Orchestra told "First Page" that musical leadership is a queen and a spiritual gift that he discovered in his artistic personality. Its early signs appeared during his studies at the Institute of Arab Music, which he joined in order to satisfy his soul to the instruments and to understand everything related to music.
The study opened before his eyes many different fields of thinking through composition, leadership, orchestral writing, and musical notation, and from here his passion for leadership increased compared to singing, although singing was his first love, but leadership snatched his mind, his heart and all his emotions.
Musical leadership in a word
The founder of Diraz Academy tells about leadership, saying: In fact, leadership needs strength, decisiveness, determination and steadfastness mixed with speed, especially in the decision-making process, which is a major responsibility. Therefore, no person can be a leader because it needs certain characteristics so that the leader can direct people and finish the work that It is led by a winner of popular recognition.
Cairo University Orchestra
Maestro Mazen Draz led many concerts and concerts, and whoever loved these concerts was a concert presented by the Cairo University Orchestra, which is the first student orchestra to be established in the university’s history. This step was the idea of the university president, Dr. Othman El-Khasht, who had always dreamed of Cairo University having its own student orchestra, and he added, I was honored that I participated in the formation of the first orchestra at Cairo University and the university president gave me the university shield as a document of appreciation and honor to me.
Antique Music Festival
Maestro Mazen Draz participated in the leadership in many music festivals, such as the sixth Ibdaa Festival, and the Cairo University choir won the third place at the level of Egyptian universities, then won the first place in the artistic competition in the University Youth Week and in the seventh Ibdaa Festival the choir won the third place, and also participated in the leadership He also participated in the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh Arab Music Festival and the Citadel International Festival. He also participated in singing in the Ancient Music Festival in Algeria in 2017.
Reading musical notes
Darz presented a training program that is the first of its kind in Egypt revolving around reading the musical notes, which he considers a unique achievement in his musical life and what motivated him to present this program is the presence of many musicians who find it difficult to read and from here the idea came to him, so he prepared the curriculum of the training program By himself, with the aim of reaching the best level through simple effort and little time.
Dreams of Draz Musical
Diraz wishes to present what nourishes the artistic movement in Egypt and for Egypt to be summarized from the descending artistic contents that it unlawfully affixes to music, and that these stigmas will not remain as Egypt's musical destination that it is leading abroad, and he adds, “I try with all my efforts to keep in it an upgrading and taste The listener, and I can change the minds of musicians that they are moving their art to a better life. "
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