| Biography | Tarek Abdallah is an Egyptian oud player, composer and musicologist.
He began playing the oud as a teenager, after seeing a comedian playing one on TV. Studying with the Alexandrian master Hazem Shaheen, he practiced 10 hours a day in order to enter The Arabic Oud House, an oud school created in Cairo by the Iraqi master Naseer Shamma. He graduated from there with an excellence award. |