Naji Hakim

Naji Hakim is a contemporary representative of the long tradition of French organist-composers. Some of his music reflects Arab influences. Hakim was born in Beirut on October 31, 1955. Both his parents were musical, and Hakim and his three siblings all took music lessons; Hakim played the cello at first. Entering Beirut's Collège du Sacré-Coeur, he encountered for the first time the sound of a French Romantic organ in the grand tradition and was instantly transfixed. By age 15, he was giving concerts of organ music. However, with conditions deteriorating in Lebanon, his fath...