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He is fluent in Classical Western music and Arabic improvisation, and was concertmaster for Daniel Barenboim’s ‘West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’ (1999- 2002). Furthermore, he was invited by Yo-Yo Ma to Tanglewood/USA to support him in his Silk Road Project.

A film biography on Chalhoub’s life and career called ‘Singing on the Violin’ by German director Boris Penth (2007) has been broadcast internationally, among others on TV channels WDR, 3Sat, Bayerischer Rundfunk, ABC1, Arte, Euro arts, www.medici.tv, etc.

As a composer, he is well known to the film as well. His compositions are used in ‘America Undercover, Persona non grata – Oliver Stone (2003)’, ‘Yes – Sally Potter (2004)’ or ‘Into the Wild – Sean Penn (2007)‘, he was commissioned by ‘Koran by heart – Greg Barker (2011) ‘ and playing the solos in ‘India: Kingdom of the Tiger – Bruce Neibaur (2002), ‘Caramel – Nadine Labaki (2007) ‘ and ‘Where do we go now – Nadine Labaki (2011)'.

His debut release on Teldec Classics International called Claude Chalhoub is the result of an exclusive recording contract with Canadian producer Michael Brook. The compositions consist of western classical elements being blended into a more Indian/Arabic flavor, with the addition of ethnic percussion and electronic effects. Claude Chalhoub plays on a Stradivarius from the Stradivari Society also featuring vocals from Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan. His second album Diwan exclusively in the sphere of classical music was produced by Herzog Records in collaboration with the Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig, Germany. The album offers original compositions for violin solo and orchestra with baroque and oriental sound images. In 2015, he produced the DVD Marionettes Dance, directed by Boris Penth in collaboration with the University of Music & Performing Arts of Vienna, Austria.

In 2012, he composed and arranged the latest of Majida El Roumi's albums 'Ghazal'.

Claude Chalhoub (Arabic: كلود شلهوب ‎ ‎) born in Qaa, Lebanon in 1974, from a Christian musical family of 11 children, attended the Lebanese Conservatoire before entering the Royal College of Music in London as winner of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Scholarship award.