Born in Tetuan, Morocco in 1977, Hicham Chami is a qanun performer based in Chicago. He has studied qanun for nearly twenty years, in Morocco and the U.S. Hicham is founder of the Mosaic Trio and the ARABESQUE MUSIC Ensemble as well as Xauen Music, an organization dedicated to preserving the heritage of classical Arabic, Sephardic, Turkish, and Armenian music. He strives to communicate the beauty of traditional Oriental music to the American public through concerts, recordings, and publications.

Hicham is an educator as well as a musician, and is involved in the "Magic Carpet" program at Sullivan High School in Chicago as well as Urban Gateways. He conducts workshops and classes for children and adults in a variety of settings. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.