Nebal Maysaud is a composer, poet, and scholar who creates music that transcends the physical and fosters cosmic connection towards the realization of radical unity. His music combines his Lebanese heritage with classical forms, baroque counterpoint, romantic melodies, innovative harmonies, and contemporary ideologies to create music that is simultaneously fresh and timeless.
Alexandria Symphony’s Kim Allen Kluge Award for Young Composers
James Ming Prize in Composition
Fromm Fellow Scholarship
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Nebal Maysaud is a composer, educator, and writer whose music bridges spirituality, philosophy, and cross-cultural dialogue, as seen in his collaborations with media, dance, visual art, and poetry. He is inspired by his Lebanese heritage and the deep connection between his home country and the diaspora.
Nebal was named in the Arab America 30 Under 30 and awarded the Alexandria Symphony’s Kim Allen Kluge Award for Young Composers, the Nathan M. Pusey Alumni Award, the James Ming Prize in Composition, and the Fromm Fellow Scholarship.
As a musical diplomat, his work has been performed across the US and internationally, including at the US Embassy in Finland, Sibelius Akademie (FL), Cambridge Minerva Festival (UK), and Vancouver Art Song Lab (CD). As a multidisciplinary collaborator, Nebal composed for The Great Pyramid Scheme, a scripted podcast comedy by InshallahAF Productions, and he has collaborated with choreographers Nadia Khayrallah and Whitney Janis, as well as esteemed poets such as Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Mariam Bazeed.
Additionally, Nebal’s music has been performed by the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, Fort Dodge Symphony, Versoi Ensemble (FL), Trio Immersio (AT), Fifth House, Kin of the Moon, Strange Interlude, Deux Saisons, InfraSound, Great Noise Ensemble, the Lawrence University Opera Department and Wind Ensemble, and the University of Maryland Wind Ensemble.
As a writer, Nebal has published articles for NewMusicBox and I Care If You Listen. He has been featured as a guest on several podcasts, including Trilloquy and The Queer Arabs, and participated as a speaker for the American Composers Orchestra, Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), and YallaPunk.
Nebal also has a strong background in religious studies, philosophy, and Arabic maqam. Outside of music, he works with interfaith communities in Philadelphia, Washington DC, and New York to foster greater support for Arabs, Muslims, immigrants, and their diaspora.
Nebal’s work is funded in part by supporters on Patreon.
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