A pianist, composer, and educator whose musical journey began at sixteen after a transformative encounter with Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2, he has since built a multifaceted career as a performer, teacher, and ensemble director across Iraq, Lebanon, and Canada. His training includes studies with Raid Elias, Iraqi-Czech pianist Natasha Al Radi, and Prof. Armen Kachik at the École de Musique Antonine, where he also pursued harmony, composition, conducting, and orchestration.

He has performed extensively as a soloist, accompanist, and church musician, and has directed choirs and music groups in multiple countries. A dedicated educator, he has taught in schools, studios, and privately, and currently serves as an Organist & Choir Director at the Church of the Ascension and Associate Conductor of the County Classic Chorale, and piano instructor at Académie Ste-Cécile,

As a composer, As a composer, he has written more than twenty works for solo instruments and choirs.
His academic background includes studies in philosophy, theology, psychology, and music.

DMA, has been a singer, choral conductor, and organist for five decades, performing in recital as both a singer and as organist, and in choral repertoire as conductor, soloist, or accompanist. He has taught music at the university level in Kentucky, New Brunswick, New York, Ontario, and Michigan. He has composed or arranged over 80 of works, most for voice, both solo and choral, with a number of those being commissions. Hobbies include reading, swimming, and cooking. Currently he is staff musician of All Saints’ Anglican Church in Windsor, Ontario, and Conductor of the [Essex] County Classic Chorale, based in Leamington, Ontario.