born in Damascus in 1975, he studied the violin with Riyad Sukar. He completed his master’s with honours from the Music Academy of Cracow where he studied composition with Zbigniew Bujarski. He is currently working on his PhD at the same academy under the supervision of Krzysztof Penderecki. He won the 1st Prize at the Adam Didur Composers’ Competition in Sanok, Poland in 1997 for his Two Songs for Soprano and String Orchestra. In 1999 he participated in the International Music Workshops in Buckow, Germany.
In 2008 he was invited by the Bilgi University Music Department in Istanbul for Polish Music Days. In 2011 he became a member of Polish Composers’ Union. He was also recently invited to Brunel University in London to represent Syria at the inauguration of the Institute for Contemporary Middle Eastern Music. Since 2008 Jabri has also lectured at the Music Academy in Cracow.
His works have been performed in Poland (Warsaw Autumn, Cracow Composers’ Days, Festival of Polish Premieres), Germany (Morgenland Festival in Osnabrück), Dubai, Egypt (Opera House), Tunisia, France, Italy, USA (Pacific Symphony Orchestra), Armenia (Armenian National Symphony Orchestra), Syria (Syrian National Symphony Orchestra), Slovakia, Belgium (Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, at the 2011 Tactus young composers’ forum), Ukraine (Lviv Philharmonic during Contrast Festival, Uzhgorod Philharmonic, Kiev Camerata during Modern Music Festival), the Netherlands (by Nieuw Ensemble and Ensemble Zerafin), and the United Kingdom (Plaisterers’ Hall, Cadogan Hall, and English Chamber Orchestra at Al Farabi Concerto series).

Major works: Two Songs for Soprano and String Orchestra (1997), Adar for string orchestra (1998), Trio Bayat for clarinet, violin and cello (1999), Gesture for violin and piano (2000), Violin Concerto (2000), Beati Pacifici for mixed choir (2000; version for panpipe, duduk, qanun, mezzo-soprano, erhu, viola da gamba and double bass, 2011), For Nahel for trumpet and piano (2001), Miroir for mixed choir (2001), Les temps des pierres for baritone and piano (2001, rev. 2007), Gesture II for violin and piano (2002), Chamber Music for string orchestra (2003), Computer Music no. 1 for tape (2003), Levante for two violins and large symphony orchestra (2003), Levante II for large symphony orchestra (2003), Clarinet Concerto (2004), Levante III for violin and large symphony orchestra (2004), Oriento Grosso for clarinet, cello and orchestra (2004), Violin Concerto no. 2 (2005), Glyptos for flute and percussion (2005), Levante IV for large symphony orchestra (2006), Song Without Words II for clarinet and string orchestra (2007), String Quartet (2007), In memoriam Solhi al-Wadi for tape, clarinet, string trio (2008), Song Without Words III for cello and strings (2009), Solo for cello (2009), Glyptos II for flute, clarinet, trumpet, piano, violin, double bass and tape (2010), Some Words... for piano (2010), Glyptos 3 for oboe, saxophone, accordion, piano and violin (2011), Quintet for English horn and string quartet (2012), Song Without Words IV for violin, percussion and string orchestra (2012), Tree of Melancholy for soprano and piano (2013), Gerra and Qasioun for oboe and 11 strings (2013), Two Poems of Mihiar of Damascus for five singers (2013), Ode to Maulana Rumi for qanun and eight cellos (2014).