Ζaid Jabri

Born in Damascus, Zaid Jabri graduated from the Kraków Academy of Music in Poland, where he studied Composition under Zbigniew Bujarski. He prepared and defended his doctoral thesis at the same institution under the supervision of Professor Krzysztof Penderecki.

In 1997, he took first prize in the Adam Didur Composers’ competition in Sanok with "Deux chansons pour soprano et orchestre à cordes" and second prize in the international Composition Competition in Bologna (August 2012) with "Les Temps des pierres" for baritone and symphony orchestra.

In 1999, he took part in the International Music Workshop in Buckow, Germany.

In 2014, he was awarded a VCCA Fellowship in Memory of Composer George Edwards at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and was invited to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center as an artist in residence.