world soprano worksPrincess SelimFor a long time with her mother, the pioneering Egyptian pianist Marcel Matta on a musical work for the People’s ArtistSayed Darwish.
Amira has been in love with his music since the beginning of her artistic career. For her, he is the source of the musical renaissance in Egypt and the Arab world, and one of Egypt’s greatest composers in the early twentieth century, as well as the father of musical theater in Egypt.
Amira said, “Throughout my life, I have loved Sayed Darwish’s music and songs, and I consider him the most composer who was able to strongly express the Egyptian identity in his songs and melodies, and at the same time expresses modernity and the distinguished spirit that may have preceded his era, and therefore his tunes still live among us until now.”
She added, “Therefore, I began with my mother, Marcel Matta, to choose the work that I might present to this great musician, as we began working on it since 2006, and I presented excerpts from it at my concerts in Europe, until I recorded a song.”What is the phrase?” In the studio last June, let’s work on it more professionally. Thus, the first video clip I present to fulfill the history of this great musician, accompanied by my mother playing the piano, without words, but through my voice. Musical Darwish.
Regarding her cooperation with her mother, she said, “One of the most beautiful things is that I participated with my mother in presenting this project. My mother knows the history of music in Egypt from its beginnings. She was the first Egyptian piano professor to teach at the Conservatoire at the Academy of Arts, the first head of the piano department at the institute, and the first soloist. An Egyptian woman who plays in the old Egyptian Opera House, she is a teacher for generations of musicians, and I am proud of her, and I am definitely working with her on this project that I am presenting to the public for the first time.”
