Gani Mirzo is a contemporary Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 musician. He was born in Qamishlo in northeastern Syria

Syria

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 and studied music at the Aleppo

Aleppo

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 Conservatory and taught lute

Lute

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 and composition

Musical composition

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 in Syria. He moved to Spain

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 in 1993 and worked on flamenco

Flamenco

Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

 at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona

Barcelona

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 from 1994 to 2000. He is now head of the Department of Oriental Music (Ziryab) at the Barcelona School of Music and a professor of flamenco guitar

Guitar

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at the Liceu Conservatory. His music is recognized for creating a fusion among Kurdish, Oriental and Flamenco styles.

External links

• Official Website.
• Gani Mirzo, La Pedrera by night, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, 2003.