Quad City Arts Presents Wanees Zarour

Enjoy a unique opportunity to see a full-length performance by featured artists from our Visiting Artist Series, followed by curated conversation and a meet and greet with the artist. Hear about their experiences with students in schools, their background, technique, collaboration, and more! A cash bar will be available.

Wanees Zarour is an award winning Palestinian-American composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist steeped in maqam and jazz music. Born into a family of musicians, Zarour started his Western classical training on the violin at the age of 7 at the Edward Said Conservatory of Music where he showed extraordinary talent and fast advancement in his musical education. A few years after, Zarour started his training in Maqam, Middle Eastern Repertoire, the Arab violin tradition and picked up the buzuq, a long-necked chordophone most common in the Levant region. Zarour is a virtuoso on the buzuq, in addition to playing the oud, violin and percussion.