The Compass – Sharjah: The new musical album entitled “Musical Tales” was launched in Sharjah by the creative musician and head of the Sharjah Days Opening Committee, the artist “Azhar Kubba”. The new album includes selected traditional and folkloric varieties.

The album also includes wonderful compositions by the artist Kubba on the daisy and piano instruments, the most prominent of which are “Sarah” and “Fragments.” The artist Azhar Kubba is considered one of the young artists and researchers in heritage matters, as he works in the Ministry of Culture in the field of folklore and folk music documentation, and at the same time he follows his musical work.

Azhar Kubba began his first study of music in Baghdad at the age of six, where he was taught by Russian experts and Iraqi professors on the daisy instrument at the 1977 School of Music and Ballet.

Then he studied music at the hands of the most skilled Iraqi music and maqam professors, among them the professors: “Munir Bashir” “Ruhi Al-Khamash” “Hussein Al-Azami” at the Institute of Musical Studies in 1986

He studied the piano in the Department of Music, College of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad, 1992

He founded Fann Music Group – Baghdad 1994 that performs Arab and Iraqi forms of music with new distribution.

He participated in the first work of its kind that combines the daisy instrument in the orchestra with the Iraqi symphony group, composed by artist Abdullah Jamal – 1994.

He is the Chairman of the Opening Committee of Sharjah Heritage Days 2012-2014. Azhar Kubba had released a number of musical albums in which he documented Arab folk music in the Gulf and the Arab region and recorded his artistic and musical productions.