Jamil Bachir

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Jamil Bachir or Bashir (

Sherif Muheddin Haydar and violin with Sando Albu
. He finished his oud studies in 1943 and his violin study in 1946, and then worked at the Institute as an oud and violin teacher. He also wrote a two-volume oud method. Jamil Bashir was also a good singer, but he did not continue singing as he preferred the oud. He died in London on 24 September 1977.

Personal life

Born in Mosul to an ethnic

Assyrian/Syriac Christian family, his father was a singer and a well-known oud player who started to teach him the oud when he was around six years old. Jamil Bashir was the brother of oud player Munir Bashir
.

See also

References

[1] Rare Recordings of Jamil Bashir