Maya Youssef

🌌I moved to Insta
🌏World leading Qanun & Maqam Mentor
🎶Qanunist, Composer
👑Queen of the Qanun, BBC
⬇️Learn QANUN & Arabic music

[Menna Rawlings @MennaRawlings]

Honorée d'avoir pu accueillir à Paris la Première Ministre @PrifWeinidog et la ministre pour le Pays de Galles @JoStevensLabour lors de la réception de la Saint David. Une célébration de la culture galloise, avec @cerysmatthews and @Mayaqanun, qui ont donné une interprétation incroyable de “Under Milk Wood”. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🤩

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Wonderful to be back on @BBCRadio4 #Addtoplaylist with the amazing @GernonBen @jefferykboake @AnnaPhoebe . Thank you for inviting me again @leadbelly61 🙏🏼🎶

[Jerome Weatherald @leadbelly61]

This week's #AddToPlaylist's playout, courtesy of excellent studio guests @GernonBen🎹 & @Mayaqanun on the, er, qanun! Radios at the ready for five more top tracks with the lovely & playful @AnnaPhoebe & @jeffreykboakye on @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds 1915 🎶🎵

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

It was an incredible experience speaking at @DarwinLectures @DarwinCollege last Friday! Very humbled by the feedback. Thank you so much to the Master and the Fellows for having me and for the incredible hospitality.

Watch out for the recording coming out soon!

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

I am featured in @voguemagazine #VogueArabia! 🎉 Check out the interview to learn about my lifelong relationship with my qanun and my journey as a mentor, composer and a musical alchemist https://t.co/t9mhrBhzwd

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Honoured to be one of the speakers for the prestigious
@DarwinCollege lecture series.

Join me for an evening of stories, and live music.

Free entry but arrive early to avoid disappointment. 💫 https://t.co/MsZzYsm2xt

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

2024 has been unforgettable🌺—a year of growth, learning, and transformation as an artist, mentor, and human.
Thank you for your support in 2024. It never ceases to blow my mind and open my heart. . Here’s to more music, connection, and magic in 2025. 🤍

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Merry Christmas. 🎄 I wanted to share this moment from my visit to St. Hananya in Old Damascus, lighting a candle for peace in the world during my visit in February 2024.

Sending love, healing, strength, and comfort to everyone and everything. ❤

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

🕊️

[BBC Arts @bbcarts]

"I wish all bombs turn into roses". Moving performance by Maya Youssef on amazing qanun instrument. https://t.co/NUOIXGWM40 #syria

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

The interview that cracked my heart open @BBCRadio4
Let’s listen, connect to the heart of Syria’s sound , and pray for a bright peaceful future where everyone is celebrated and every one is safe. ❤️ https://t.co/Wmhp5Frj0P

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Thank you so much for playing my music @PetrocTrelawny @BBCRadio3 🙏🏼🌈🎶

[Petroc Trelawny @PetrocTrelawny]

Good morning. Friday’s Breakfast @BBCRadio3 incl. Riccardo Chailly conducting Beethoven’s Egmont Overture. We mark the anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s birth, Pavarotti, Tourangeau, Sutherland and Milnes sing Verdi and Maya Youssef finds promise in a rainbow. Come and join us.

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Peace unto my city, peace unto my country, peace unto my world 🌏🕊️🤍 #syria #syriandreams

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Can't wait to return to @stmartininthefields TONIGHT and to play @wiltshiremusic TOMORROW!

You are warmly invited!

Tickets and info: https://t.co/E8m2VqalCC

Photos from my last concert at STMF by @appleandbiscuit

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Excited to share music from my first album and debut new pieces from my upcoming album tomorrow @smitf_london ! 🌍✨

If you’re ready to connect with hope, peace, and humanity, join me 🎟️👉🏻 https://t.co/Xi5puVhW8u

@Concertedartists

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Can't wait to play Hartlepool Folk Festival TOMORROW at 19:00 at the Borough Hall! Hope to see you there! Tickets: https://t.co/1XbzYTX01v
@concertedartists

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Hartlepool, London, Bradford on Avon, and Sheffield… I’m coming your way! (And stay tuned for my first headline concert in the Arab world in a long time ) You’re warmly invited

@smitf_london @MusicintheRound @wiltshiremusic @concertedartists

Tickets https://t.co/E8m2VqalCC

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

My conversation with @Datshiane on @bbcworldservice #BBCtheconversation has gone live! Listen to yours truly and the incredible @wumanpipa talking about our connections to our instruments here https://t.co/yBTPqjSTbW

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

@KenHunt01 Thanks so much for the shout out Ken ! 😊

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Thank you so much Damian! This was a night to remember 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[damian @peterdamianent1]

I was in Leeds yesterday evening for a concert to mark World Refugee Day. Music from Maya Youssef (qanun player extraodinaire), featuring hauntingly beautiful compositions from her latest album 'Finding Home'; & from Thanda Gumede.
Sumptuous.
@MayaYoussef
https://t.co/SzeljwSLf9

[damian @peterdamianent1]

I was in Leeds yesterday evening for a concert to mark World Refugee Day. Music from Maya Youssef (qanun player extraodinaire), featuring hauntingly beautiful compositions from her latest album 'Finding Home'; & from Thanda Gumede.
Sumptuous.
@MayaYoussef
https://t.co/SzeljwSLf9

[Maya Youssef @Mayaqanun]

Thank you so much for this incredible review @simongodley 🙏🏼 @Howard_Assembly @ConcertedAgency

[Simon Godley @simongodley]

Live review of @Mayaqanun and Thanda Gumede at @Howard_Assembly last night. A truly wonderful celebration of World Refugee Day. Read about it on @godisinthetv https://t.co/VilfcwYRU6