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Nebal 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.
Nebal 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. He studied and has taken mentorship under Mark Camphouse, Rob Deemer, Joanne Metcalf, Asha Srinivasan, Andrew Cole, inti figgis-vizueta, Alex Temple, Annika Socolfsky, Sami Abu-Shumays, and others.
A musical diplomat, his work has been performed for the US Embassy of Finland, as well as Cambridge Vienna, Vancouver, and many cities across the US including Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Boston, Indianapolis, Appleton, Madison, Minneapolis, Virginia, and Maryland. His music has been performed by the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Dodge Symphony, Lawrence University Opera Department and Wind Ensemble, University of Maryland Wind Ensemble, Versoi Ensemble in Helsinki, Trio Immersio, Fifth House, InfraSound, Great Noise Ensemble, and others.
Nebal is also known for his writings on the classical music field. He has written articles for NewMusicBox and I Care if You Listen and has been featured as a guest on several podcasts including Trilloquy, and the Queer Arabs. He has also received several awards for his compositions, including the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra Kim Allen Kluge Award for young Composers and the Lawrence University Nathan M. Pusey alumni award for impact in the field.
Nebal also has a strong background in religious studies, philosophy, and Arabic maqam. He pioneered a contrapuntal system for Arabic Maqam called musiqa tabaqat, bringing ancient knowledge from Sufism, Neo-Platonism, Islamic numerology, and other ancient musical practices to the modern day.
Outside of music, Nebal works with inter-faith communities in Philadelphia, Washington DC, and New York to support to foster greater community support for Arabs, LGBTQ+ individuals, Muslims, immigrants and their diaspora through Halal and Queer, the Queer Muslim Collective, Reaching Our People NYC, and other local communities.