Hiba Kawas

Hiba Al Kawas (; born 17 July 1972) is a Lebanese operatic soprano, composer and academic. BIography Hiba Al Kawas was born on 17 July 1972 in Sidon, Lebanon, to a Sunni Muslim family. Career Composer Hiba Al Kawas has recorded 21 works of her own composition with the Dnipropetrovsk Symphony Orchestra-Ukraine under the direction of Vyacheslav Blinov, and 10 works with the Kraków Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Wojciech Czepiel. She has recorded 13 works with The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and the National Choir of Kyiv conducted by Vladimir Sirenko. In 2000, participated as a composer in the Kraków Contemporary Composition Festival, where the Kraków chamber Orchestra played her Aspiration No.1 conducted by Wojceich Czepiel. At her second appearance at the festival, her composition Moments in Krakow was given its world premiere by the Kraków Academy of Music conducted Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Wojceich Czepiel. Her orchestral work, Pleusis 1, which was premiered in 2000 by the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Harout Fazlian and by Wojciech Czepiel, has been played by the City of London Sinfonia, Cairo Symphony Orchestra