SINGING 2000 : Fifth Prize
Lubana Al Quntar pursued higher education in Damascus, where her first teacher was Galina Khaldiave. During her studies in Maastricht and London, she went on tour in the United States, performing Dido in the first open-air performance of Dido and Aeneas. She then joined the Royal College of Music in London, where for a year she continued her training under Kenneth William and Graziella Sciutti before taking up studies with Claude Miloni in France. Since winning fourth prize at the International Singing Competition of Belgrade, she is invited to give concerts in Belgrade, Greece, Lebanon and Syrie. Currently she is the head of the Voice & Choral Department in the High Institute of Music in Damascus.