Born in Cairo, He begins at the five years age his initiation with the music by learning the violin and the oud (Eastern lute) and continues his studies with the National Academy of Music in Egypt. At the same time, he receives during nearly ten years, the teaching of the Master Mahmoud Kamel, with whom he acquires a thorough knowledge of the traditional and Arab erudite music. Gradually also, he widens his listening with other musical expressions around the Mediterranean, towards the Maghreb and India… then towards rock and jazz. He worked with Fathy Salama, celebrates musician Egyptien (Allah, Egypt: album of Youssou dour) and also Yehia Khlil (beater of Jazz to the Middle-East celebrates). In a musical environment largely dominated by the song of variety, where the oud is confined in a role of guide, the name of Ihab Radwan closely remains related to the instrumental music. As of his beginnings, while being devoted to the composition, a different requirement pushes him to give again the primacy with this instrument of predilection of the Arab music. He gives concerts of oud in solo and with the majority of the Egyptian artists. His original compositions study the mode of amalgamated Eastern creation and work on several musical forms. - Those coming from the rural music of the North of Egypt until the South, Nubie, border enter the Black Africa and the East. - Exploitation in an Eastern form of the pentatonic mode known in the blues and expressed in Africa. Musician multi instrumentalist within the company “Lutherie Urbaine” in Paris, professor of Arab music within the studio Albatross in Montreuil and a partner with the Arabic Oud house of Egypt.
