Ya Msafer Wahdak | يا مسافر وحدك (Layth Sidiq)

Composed and sung by: Mohammad Abdel-Wahbab
Lyrics by: Hussein al-Sayyed

Layth Sidiq is an award-winning violinist, composer and educator who has toured the world and performed with major artists such as Simon Shaheen, Danilo Perez, Javier Limon, Jack Dejohnette, Tigran Hamasyan and others. Layth is featured on multiple award-winning albums and his first record Son of Tigris was premiered at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2016. A Jordanian with Iraqi roots, Layth started his musical training at the National Music Conservatory in Amman and finished his high school degree at the prestigious Chethams School of Music in Manchester, UK. After getting accepted at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston with a full scholarship, he finished his bachelor degree in performance in 2014 and his masters degree from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute in 2016.

In 2018, Layth was one of the prize winners at the Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition as the first and only Arab to ever participate. He presented his compositions which are an amalgam of Eastern and Western styles done in a way which perfectly describe his diverse upbringing and musical taste.

Layth is currently the director of both the Arab Music Ensemble at Tufts University and the Center for Arabic Culture’s Youth Orchestra Program in Boston, and a faculty member at Simon Shaheen’s annual Arabic Music Retreat. He is an in-demand violinist and vocalist around the world.