Omar El Jamali

Morocco, 34 y.o.
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For me, conducting is my way of engaging with the world: by serving the score, the musicians, and the communities that music can bring together. It means helping a composer’s vision become a living experience, while bringing clarity, discipline, generosity, and honesty to the people in front of me — and demanding the same from myself. As a Moroccan and African conductor, I also see the podium as a place from which I can help widen the circle of classical music: who it reaches, who it represents, and the stories it still has to tell.

Omar El Jamali

Morocco, 34 y.o.

Mox dicta finierat, multitudo omnis ad, quae imperator voluit, promptior laudato consilio consensit in pacem ea ratione maxime percita, quod norat expeditionibus crebris fortunam eius in malis tantum civilibus vigilasse, cum autem bella moverentur externa, accidisse plerumque luctuosa, icto post haec foedere gentium ritu perfectaque sollemnitate imperator Mediolanum ad hiberna discessit.

Denique Antiochensis ordinis vertices sub uno elogio iussit occidi ideo efferatus, quod ei celebrari vilitatem intempestivam urgenti, cum inpenderet inopia, gravius rationabili responderunt; et perissent ad unum ni comes orientis tunc Honoratus fixa constantia restitisset.

Dum apud Persas, ut supra narravimus, perfidia regis motus agitat insperatos, et in eois tractibus bella rediviva consurgunt, anno sexto decimo et eo diutius post Nepotiani exitium, saeviens per urbem aeternam urebat cuncta Bellona, ex primordiis minimis ad clades excita luctuosas, quas obliterasset utinam iuge silentium! ne forte paria quandoque temptentur, plus exemplis generalibus nocitura quam delictis.

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First Round
Constantii deiectas super adimenda vita vitam praefecto conveniet securius cogitari.

Second Round
Hinc ille commotus ut iniusta perferens et indigna praefecti custodiam protectoribus mandaverat fidis. quo conperto Montius tunc quaestor acer quidem sed ad lenitatem propensior,

Final Round
consulens in commune advocatos palatinarum primos scholarum adlocutus est mollius docens nec decere haec fieri nec prodesse

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Denique Antiochensis ordinis vertices sub uno elogio iussit occidi ideo efferatus, quod ei celebrari vilitatem intempestivam urgenti, cum inpenderet inopia, gravius rationabili responderunt; et perissent ad unum.