The AUS Choral Ensemble, the Nassim Al Saba Choir, Nassim Al Saba Tarab, and the SAMA Barbershop Quartet will perform music choral music from the Western and Arabic repertoire.

The AUS Choral Ensemble is the introductory-level choir that performs Western and Arabic four-part music. The Nassim Al Saba Choir is the advanced choir, and it performs only Arabic four-part music. Nassim Al Saba Tarab is an instrumental takt associated with the Arabic choir, but is also a separate instrumental ensemble.  SAMA, which takes its name from the first letters of its members' names, is a barbershop quartet comprising four male singers who sing in four different parts.

Soprano

Sawsan Gasem
Rindala Atef Khallouf
Abeer El Sayed
Yosr Sherbini
Ilyssa Weingarten
Rim Samir Zakaria

Alto

Eisar Asim Abdalla
Ola Arrabi
Masa Al Baal
Marwah Al-Bakri
Rahaf Harfoush
Sima Mohjazi
Maisoon Moubark
Wibke Mueller
Emily Good Perkins
Sarah Sheikh

Tenor

Anas Bukhashm
Omar Ghazal
Mohamad Sami Mahmoud
Alawi Al Safi
Mohammed Murad
Issa Emile Haddad

Bass

Fahmi Awni
Ahmad Elayan
Sami Al Haj
Viraj Kumar
Bharath Raghavan
Abdulrahman Yousef

Rafiq El Kouche, table
Medhat Maaliki, Imed Nsiri, Ali Shuhaimy, oud
Nagham, kanoun
Tatiana Tarakanova, pianist
John Perkins, conductor

For more information, please contact jperkins@aus.edu.