Mohammed Uthman Sidiq (tba)

Biography

Mohammed Uthman Sidiq

Iraqi pianist, conductor and composer of orchestral and chamber works performed in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Self taught as composer Mohammad studied piano at the Music and Ballet School in Baghdad 1968-1980 and later on piano with Vera Barisivna at the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow where he obtained his MMus in 1997.Among his several Honors and prizes are First prize in the Arab Song Competition in Cairo in 2000.He is currently conductor of the Amman Philharmonic Orchestra , head of the Keyboard Department and assistant director of academic affairs at the National Music Conservatory in Amman.