الفنانة المبدعة تارا المعلوف

Lebanon…The original creative artist Tara Maalouf
Student of the famous Russian Opera singer Mrs. Galina Khaldeeva, Miss Tara Maalouf finished her BA in Opera singing in 2012 in the Lebanese Higher Conservatory of Music. She has a BA in Psychology (1997), a DES in Drama (2004) from the Lebanese University (first in class), and a Masters in Performing Arts and Stage Directing from USEK (2012) earned with honors and distinction. She has been honored by the Department of Culture of the United Arab Emirates in Sharjah with only three other students from the Arab World for her Masters’ Thesis which has been published as a book by them. She is now continuing her doctorate in Art & Art Sciences in the Lebanese University, and has been teaching at Notre Dame University NDU since 2006 all kinds of Arts including: “Performing Arts”, “Introduction to Arts & music”, “Art & Culture”, “Classical and Modern Singing”, “Gospel Chorus” and how to develop the personality overcoming shyness and fear, and has taught in AUST University students with Special Needs. She has also been a vocal teacher in many other schools of Music.
Tara Maalouf has been a soloist with the Lebanese National Philharmonic Orchestra since 2006, and her most important performance with this orchestra was when she sang and acted the lead role in the opera “Carmen”. She sang Lebanese Patriotic songs with the Lebanese Internal Security Forces Orchestra and the Lebanese Army Orchestra and sang Operatic songs in the Bustan Festival 3 times and participated in the Tyre International Festival, with the composer Jamal Abu el Hosn, as a narrator reciting poetry,
Tara Maalouf sings in 24 languages internationally and with most of the Embassies in Lebanon, including: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Socialist Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Morocco, France, Gabon, Nigeria, China, Australia, Republic of Iraq, Chile, Austria, Democratic Republic of Algeria, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia. She also sang for the Diaspora or Expatriate houses of Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, and the United States of America, in cooperation with the Lebanese-Brazilian Union, and with the Lebanese-Iraqi Friendship Association, and the Lebanese University. She was also invited to sing in the presence of Patriarchs, Bishops and many Sheikhs of the highest levels of all sects and religions, including His Beatitude John X the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and all the East, and His Beatitude the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Maronite Church Bechara Boutros al Rahi, where she was praised by them in the presence of many political and religious figures.
She has sung on many occasions calling for peace among nations, including concerts in Germany, Lebanon, Syria and Italy, and sang a duet with an Italian singer in sympathy with the world’s displaced people, and a duet with an Algerian singer in the Algerian Tribal Amazigh or Tamazight language and the Arabic Lebanese language calling for peace and criticizing the negative psychological impact of wars on humanity. She sang as a music peace ambassador at the 3rd Cairo Arab Conference for Peace against Terrorism and Extremism, where she was also honored. She also sang in Kurdistan, Iraq, at a peace conference calling for peace, communication between Nations and dialogue among civilizations and religions. She was honored for her humanitarian contributions, which she added to the conference and her ability to communicate wonderfully with the Kurdish and Iraqi people, and the Governor of Erbil also noted the quality of her performance of the Iraqi and Kurdish anthems. In Armenia, Yerevan, she sang and was an international judge representing Lebanon at the 5th Caucasian championship, an international singing competition with the World Association of Performing Arts WAPA.
Ms. Tara Maalouf has been honored several times in Lebanon for her achievements as an international opera singer, including a tribute by the association “Important Achievers and Pioneers in the Land of Cedars” with the collaboration of the Lebanese National Museum for her generous humanitarian contributions and her national pioneering role in Lebanon and abroad, and after she sang for the Brazilian Navy of the Unifil Maritime Task Force Battleship “Liberal” on Christmas Eve in Beirut Port, where she was honored with a medal by the Commander of the Battleship in the presence of General Stefano Del Col Head of Unifil Mission in Lebanon.
She sang in support of several associations and charitable and humanitarian issues, including: mental health, promoting the spirit of citizenship among individuals and their confidence in the country, the state and the army, in addition to helping the needy of all groups without distinction between color or religion, and activating the role of women socially. She sang for children with special needs and learning difficulties, people with autism, diabetes, orphans and the disabled, to feed the elderly in need, to fight drugs and fight human trafficking, and to find a solution to unemployment in Lebanon, to secure jobs, to train people to get jobs, to help those who have no material capacity to learn and secure jobs. She also sang to preserve the environment and encourage tree planting.
During the Covid 19 crisis, Tara Maalouf continued her national charitable humanitarian work through social media, singing several concerts, including a Food Donation Concert for Filipinos who lost their jobs in Lebanon, singing a concert against Covid 19 entitled “Art against Corona” with Bangladesh via the Internet and contributed through a promotional video supporting the 1st International Theater Puppet Festival in Basra, Iraq, and received thanks and an appreciation certificate from the Iraqi Ministry of Culture, while with Algeria she made a promotional video encouraging the donation of books to support the library at the Art and Culture Institute of Art and Culture, Iraq, and donating trees and volunteering to plant trees. Currently she continues her work to support the Lebanese people in their economic crisis and there are many projects being carried out to try to ease this burden on the Lebanese people and everyone living in Lebanon”.