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Hamdi Makhlouf was born on 05 June 1980 in Tunis (Tunisia). Musician,
'ûd player (Arabic lute), a composer-performer and a student in
music and musicology at the ParisIV-Sorbonne University. He began
singing and music learning at 11
year's old with his first master Mohamed Rekhis. He then joined the orchestra's
music of High Pilot School of Sfax and sang several songs from
oriental corpus. At 16 year's old, he leaned toward instrumental
music and began to study 'ûd with the assistance of his master Moncef
Elaoud.
He had his Bachelor degree on June 1999
and subscribed to the ISM (Higher Music Institute) of Sfax to continue his studies
and develop his knowledges about music and musicology. His meeting with
his master, the lutenist Wahid Triki, was one of the decisive moments
of his career. On June 2003, he obtained his Master's degree with the words
"very good with honors". The diploma includes a scientific
validation to the ability of research and an artistic validation
certifying the transition to the rank of professor of lute and concert lutenist.
He won the presidential prize in " Arts et Metiers"
on July 2003 (Music and musicology, Visual arts, drama and scenic Arts
and Architecture). A state scholarship has been attributed to him to pursue
his doctoral studies in Paris (France).
He studied
ethnomusicology and discovered several aspects of the world music (Indian music, Balkan music, Asian music, African music, etc.…). He
obtained a DEA diploma (Diplôme des Etudes Approfondies) on October
2004 at Paris VIII Saint-Denis University . Currently, he is
pursuing a doctoral thesis at ParisIV-Sorbonne, on composition and
interpretation for the contemporary 'ûd (Arabic lute) , with the
direction of Jean-Marc Chouvel (Professor and composer).
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Since his childhood, Hamdi Makhlouf expressed his love to music. His preferences were directed at first to tradition emblems (Mohamed Abd Al-Wahab, Om Kolthoum and Fayrouz for
long songs, Sabah Fakhri for Aleppo music , Hedi Jouini and Mohamed
Jammousi for Tunisian variety). The subscription to the
ISM of Sfax allowed him to expand his listening to traditional
classical Arabic music (qasâid, muwashshhât and azjâl) and other
traditional music of geocultural neighboring (Maghreb, Middle East and
Europe). At the same time, aware of the rich
expressive capabilities of the 'ûd, he felt the need to adapt this instrument to new musical contexts, inspired so many artistic experiments : (1) Those of the most significant lutenists such as Cherif Muhyiddine Haydar (the
founder of the lute school of Bagdad), his disciples Munir Bashir,
Jamil Bashir, Salman Shukur, and in a later stage, Naseer Shamma,
Khaled Mohamed Ali, Ali Hassan, etc.… (2) Those who are tempted by the
merger of several musical genders, especially jazz and world music. The
experience of the Tunisian Jazzman guitarist Fawzi Chekili was for him one of
the most important.
So far in France, Hamdi Makhlouf is
exposed to a magnifical stylistic differences. He has leaned more toward the experiences of
SHAKTI project managed by John McLaughlin through Indian music;
Karim Ziad, Nguen-Le and Bojan Zulficarpazik through african, maghreb, Asian and Central Europe music, and, of course, to the lute fusion
experiments (including those of Anouar Brahem, Dhafer
Youssef and Rabih Abou Khalil). Currently, he is trying to
steer his listening to contemporary music such as Western works by
Boulez, Xenakis, Berio, etc.
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