Elias Zazi

Elias Zazi (born 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Swedish-Assyrian composer and a theorist in music. Zazi also teaches music and works as a music critic and writer to a daily newspaper in Södertälje, Sweden. History Elias began his journey as a discjockey in 1981 and two years later he won the title “Stockholm’s No 1 DJ 1983-1984” which was arranged by the in-spot place called Studion in St. Eriksplan in Stockholm. In 1985 his interest of Oriental music awakened. Elias Zazi who was raised in the sixties in Lebanon was already acquainted with the Arabic music and the Syriac Orthodox Church music. At the beginning of the eighties he began his studies of music and its essence. In 1994 he composed “Alfo Gabe D Howelan” (lyrics by Malfono Touma Nahroyo) which became a dance in the theatre group Ha Nison’s play called “Warm soup with politics”. In 1995-1996 he composed “The Dream Sonata”, the first Syriac musical operetta in two acts which played on the stage of Estrad, Södertälje in May 1996. After the Dream Sonata, Zazi began his studies of western music. He studied western music theories, harmonies, contra-point and more, and later he complemented his studies with sessions in composition