Mohammed Haddad - Tarafa
Mohammad Haddad is a Bahraini composer and music critic. He is an active artist in the music scene of Bahrain and a leading composer in the film scores of Bahraini films. He is best known for his work on the soundtrack of the critically acclaimed Bahraini motion picture A Bahraini Tale.
was born on October 2, 1975, in Muharraq, Bahrain, the second child of father Qassim Haddad and Mother Moza Al Shamlan, along with his elder sister Tufool Haddad and younger brother Mahyar Haddad. His father poet Qassim Haddad is an influential cultural figure in Bahrain.
In 2000, Haddad had obtained his bachelor degree in Music composition and conducting with an honors with distinction degree from the Cairo Conservatory of Music, Academy of Art, Egypt.
Between those seven years 1993 - 2000, Haddad studied score-reading, orchestration and conducting under maestro Ahmed El-Saedi, counterpoint and music analysis under professor Awatef Abdel Karim and composition basics under Ahmad Abdulla, Mona Ghoneim and Rageh Dawood.
In 1997, while Haddad was enrolled in his bachelor program in Cairo, he also Participated in Bahrain in a musical workshop for Oud under the supervision of the Iraqi Musician Naseer Shamma.
Upon his return from his educational journey in Cairo, Haddad was immediately involved in the art scene in Bahrain. In 2000, he composed the music for the play “Three Girls…Harem” right after his graduation. And continued composing the music and sound effects for a number of plays afterward including, “Wedding Night” in 2001, “Adhari” and “Life Is Not Very Serious in Its Bits and Pieces” in 2003, “At Midnight” in 2004 and “News of the Mad Lover” in 2005.
Also, in 2005, while he was in a visit to Scotland, he composed music for the experimental animation “Emotion in Motion”- graduation project by Hiba Abulhosn, Edinburgh College of Art.
By the year 2006, Haddad had established himself as one of Bahrain’s rising music composers, the same year he was assigned by Bahraini film director Bassam Al-Thawadi to compose the score of the Bahrain motion picture “A Bahraini Tale”. The movie received excellent reviews all around the Persian Gulf region.
2008 was a productive year for Haddad, he composed the score for six independent films, “Future Vision”, a documentary directed by Bassam Al-Thawadi, then “A Dinner” directed by Hussain Al-Riffaei, “Absence” directed by Mohammed Bu-Ali, “Yaseen” directed by Jamal Al-Ghailan, then he worked with Emirati director Khalid Al-Mahmood in his short film “Bint al nokhitha”, and his last film in 2008 was “Mraimy” a short film directed by Ali Al-Ali.
Mohammed Haddad had also been writing critical publications about music in several Bahraini newspapers since 1995 until today.
Original Release Date: 11 Nov 2011
Label: Mohammed Haddad Records
Copyright: 2011 Mohammed Haddad
Total Length: 28:44
Track List :
01. Mohammed Haddad - Transformations of Tarafa
02. Mohammed Haddad - Khawla Alone
03. Mohammed Haddad - ...Kindred
04. Mohammed Haddad - The Palanquin's Knights
05. Mohammed Haddad - Lacrimosa
06. Mohammed Haddad - Ibn Yaamen
07. Mohammed Haddad - Road to Alheera
08. Mohammed Haddad - The Return of the Poet (Khawla's Recall)
09. Mohammed Haddad - Temple of the Body
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