In a 2009 masterclass guided by Maestro Jorma Panula with the Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, Bashar conducted the first movement of the Resurrection Symphony by Gustav Mahler.
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He has conducted performances of variegated repertoires in the Middle East, Europe and the USA since 1978, and founded several orchestras, such as The 'Ur Orchestra in Austin, Texas and Philharmonia Scotland in Glasgow.
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He received his initial musical education at the Baghdad Conservatoire in 1970 where he was classically trained and later spent some of his formative years in Kuwait City, Vienna, Salzburg, Ohio, Texas, California and Cambridge, England, where he began to learn English.
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