Purchase: iTunes ABC CLASSICS 2014 Winner of the Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) “Best World Music Album 2014” This album is a wondrous ride through Tawadros’s vivid musical imagination, accompanied by some of the most outstanding players in the world. – Peter Winkler, The Music Trust Tracks [su_row][su_column size=”1/2″]1. Bluegrass Nikriz 6:35 2. Permission to […]
[su_row][su_column size=”1/2″] Purchase: ABC [/su_column] [su_column size=”1/2″] Purchase: iTunes [/su_column][/su_row] ABC CLASSICS 2013 Winner of the Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) “Best World Music Album 2013” With the inclusion of renowned banjo player Bela Fleck, the gifted Hammond organ playing of Joey DeFrancesco and Richard Bona’s bass – the result is a successful interplay, and […]
[su_row][su_column size=”1/2″] Purchase: ABC [/su_column] [su_column size=”1/2″] Purchase: iTunes [/su_column][/su_row] JT 2012 Nominated for the Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) “Best World Music Album 2012” Concerto of The Greater Sea captures the oud player and his younger brother, percussion prodigy James Tawadros, on home soil and in the company of the ACO’s Richard Tognetti, one […]
Purchase: ABC ABC CLASSICS 2011 Nominated for an Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) “Best World Music Album 2011” “The exotic sounds of the oud and req’ add an intriguing dimension to this eclectic program. Each a distinguished artist in his own right, this collaboration showcases the very best of Australian talent.The Band of Brothers is […]
Purchase: iTunes JT 2010 Nominated for an Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) “Best Jazz Album 2011” For The Hour of Separation Tawadros and his percussionist brother, James, went to New York and enlisted three of jazz’s heavyweights: drummer Jack DeJohnette, guitarist John Abercrombie and bassist John Patitucci. The results should raise the international profile of […]
Purchase: iTunes JT 2009 Winner of Limelight Award for Best World Music Achievement 2010Nominated for an Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) for Best World Music Album 2010 He uses the wonderfully reflective qualities and tones of the solo oud to explore Gibran’s themes, from the tenderness and hesitancy of Love to the confidence of Self […]
Purchase: iTunes JT 2008 Winner of Limelight Award for Best World Music Achievement 2008, Nominated for an Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) for Best World Music Album 2008 Angel confirmed his ability as a composer to fuse and blend convincingly and unselfconsciously, while rooting the music in that Egyptian heritage… Melodies to summon Angels… Impassioned […]
Purchase: iTunes JT 2007 Winner of Limelight Award Best World Music Achievement 2007. Nominated for an Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) Best World Music Album 2007 Epiphany captures an extraordinary concert, extraordinarily well. The young Egyptian-Australian lutenist and leader is already recognised worldwide. A superb player of the oud, Joseph Tawadros is also an imaginative […]
[su_row][su_column size=”1/2″][/su_column] [su_column size=”1/2″][/su_column][/su_row] JT 2006 Winner of Limelight Award “Best World Music Achievement 2006” Nominated for an Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) “Best World Music Album 2006” …Aged just 22, Tawadros has brought the warmth and emotive sounds of the oud to contemporary audiences, gaining critical acclaim with distinctive improvisations and collaborations. – Sydney […]
JT 2005 “It’s rich and incredibly vibrant, it sings but at the same time has quite a percussive sound. It sounds exotic in the sense that it takes you to a different planet. Its just a piece of wood with some strings on it, but it’s what the craftsman, Joe, does with it that matters” […]