Amina Srarfi

Amina Srarfi (rear RTL امينةصرارفي), born in 1958 with Tunis, is the first woman Leader of Tunisia and the whole of the Arab world. It fell into the music when it was small by listening to her father Kaddour Srarfi, Violoniste, leader and Arab Compositeur of classical music. Singer at her beginnings, it is graduate of Arab Musique in 1979, holder thereafter of the first price of violin and a DEUG in Musicologie. She also followed Stage S of direction of orchestra to Paris. Srarfi makes its professional beginnings in teaching during 10 years. Then, in 1988, it decides to create and direct the first private school of music to which it gives the name of his/her father: Academy Kaddour Srarfi of music and dance. Member since 1982 of the Symphony orchestra of Tunis, it directs in parallel the Chorale children of the Établissement of Tunisian broadcasting-television and illustrates himself in the production of broadcasts radio (RTCI) and televised. In 1984, at the time of the Festival of the médina, it is elected better singer for the safeguard of the inheritance. One year later, it closes (as a singer) the International festival of Carthage under the rod of Abdelhamid Ben Aljia and sings with the Olympia of Paris.

In 1992, it defies the male hegemony of Rachidia and the national radio by creating the first female orchestra of erudite music “El' Azifet” which it directs itself, which represents a first in the Arab musical landscape. She works with her husband, Fayçal Karoui, artistic adviser of the troop and general-purpose type-setter who, by his writing and its new vision of the music, assistance to reactualize the Arab traditional repertory and to create a specific repertory to its orchestra. She is decorated in 1993 with the title with officer then, in 2001, of the title of commander of the cultural Merit. At the time of the national Day of the woman, the August 13rd 2001, it is decorated officer with the title with the Republic.

In 1997, it is elected president of the commission “music” at the International counsel of the women. The same year, it organizes in Tunis and in collaboration with the National union of the Tunisian woman a méga-spectacle entitled “Music with female in the Mediterranean”, which joins together 14 orchestras come from the Mediterranean basin and whose majority were constituted for the occasion. In October 2004, its name appears in the School handbook of French language of the American schools under the heading “Portrait of the active modern woman in the Tunisian company”.

It carries out its orchestra on the most prestigious scenes of the world and gains an insane success: Paris (Institute of the Arab world), Madrid, Rome (Auditorium), London (royal Academy of music), Cairo (Opera), Washington (museum of the women), New York (head office of UNO), Stockholm (room of the Nobel Prize), Hanover (Expo 2000), Vienna), Algiers, Istanbul, Beijing and Dalian (Popular republic of China), the Tunisia (International festival of Carthage and of Hammamet), the Denmark, the Jordan (Festival of Jerash), the Palestine, the Qatar, Oman, the Japan and the South Korea (National theater of Seoul).

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Portrait of the couple Karoui-Srarfi

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