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Personal profile

Aida Tomb, I am the daughter of the famous Lebanese artist Maroun Tomb, I was given the name Ronza by the poet Said Akl. I earned a B.A in Psychology and then I pursued my education and got my M.A (1st year) in Psychology at the Lebanese University. I also got a diploma in Western classical singing and in Opera at the National Lebanese Conservatory. I was tutored by Mrs. Badiaa Haddad, along with a year of experience in the Lyrical Opera performance by Mrs. Yolla Nassif in 1987. I spent two years studying Vocal Technique with the Australian Greek Opera singer Penny Pavlakis, along with my six years of specialization in Solfege, tutored by Mr. Toufic Succar (previous director of the National Lebanese Conservatory). Since 1994, I have been learning Western Classical singing at the High National Musical Institute. And I am currently teaching Vocal Technique for the students of oriental music, Solfège at the conservatory, and Vocalize at the choir of N.D.U. Later on, I was sponsored by Rahbani Brothers as a lead singer in different performances and was tutored in oriental singing for a year by Mohamed Ghazi. As a result, we performed 3 musicals “ المؤامرة مستمرة 1980 ”, “ الشخص 1980 ” ‘ 1981/ 1982الربيع السابع’ which are translated as follows: (The Person, 1980), ( The Seventh Spring, 1981-82), in addition to musical programs, various series for the television and the theatre in Lebanon, the Arab countries and Africa). I cooperated with Marwan and Ghadi Rahbani in different occasions which resulted in several plays: “ آخر الصيف 1980 “ هالو بيروت 1984 ”, ”, “ رحلة بابا نويل 1985 “ الانقلاب 1995-1996 ”, “ الممر الى آسيا 1998 ”, which are translated as follows: (The Last Summer, 1980), (Hello Beirut, 1985), (The Trip of Santa Clause, 1985), (The Coup, 1995-96), (The Passage to Asia, 1998). I presented a video clip “ طائر الفينيق ” (The Phoenix) in 1993. The music was composed by my brother Samir Tomb. I participated with Mr. Mansour Rahbani in the T.V series “المحطات1997 (Stations, 1997) and as a lead singer in his Maronite Mass (1999). I performed in a number of religious and folkloric concerts (as a solo singer) with the choir of Mr. Toufic Succar(previous director the Conservatory), and the choir of N.D.U in Lebanon, Italy (in Vatican in the presence of the Pope John Paul II), America and Canada. I also had a part in the ancient work of art from the late middle ages “Jerusaleme Liberata” which was produced by the classical radio “Flamand” (Clara).

Company profile

Tri Orient is a group of three Lebanese sisters that have achieved great success thanks to their sweet angelic voices. They are Amal, Aida, and Fadia Tomb. Their father was a renowned painter (and an amateur musician); their mother was also a gifted singer with a beautiful voice (she studied singing at the Lebanese National Conservatoire). The girls sang together on more than one occasion in their youth. First, in their local parish church choir, then as a triplet singing on stage and later singing together on a T.V. youth program. As the sisters grew, Amal linked with the renowned Rahbani brothers (Assi and Mansour) while continuing her studies at the Lebanese National Conservatoire. She then found success in theatrical musicals with an emphasis on culture and education. She also teamed up with her husband-Jean Abi Ghanem-to establish her own musical group in which she went on to sing solo. The group was extremely successful with this type of stage musicals especially in the 70’s. The second of the three sisters was Aida, who later was known for her stage name-Ronza. Ronza also began her singing career as a soloist with the Rahbani brothers and quickly adapted their style in the stage musicals and later in musicals with Marwan and Ghadi Rahbani. After earning a diploma in classical and opera singing at the National Conservatoire in Beirut, she continued in starring roles in stage musicals. The youngest of the three-Fadia-also began her musical career as a soloist alongside her sister Aida with the Rahbani brothers. She then changed direction and steered towards singing opera accompanied by the music of the middle ages, eastern and western. She then went on to earn a diploma in classical and opera singing from the Richard Strauss Conservatoire in Munich-Germany. Later she became a soloist with the Sarband group singing to the tunes of medieval music which she went on to win world acclaim. She was also successful in other solo efforts with the Sarband as she sang in musical concerts all over the world, especially two of which were held on home soil; the Baalbeck and Beit Eddine festivals. After a long break from any musical activity Fadia was occupied by studying, traveling, and involving herself in other professional ventures. Finally, after each of the three sisters found their own musical niche they teamed up again in 1994 to perform once again. The success in their performance encouraged them to form a singing group which they later named ‘Tri Orient’. The reason behind establishing the group was for the three sisters to perform folklore songs of different artistic tastes, eras, and cultures together-especially that of Lebanese, eastern, medieval and ancient folklore as well as classical folklore. They then discovered that they could adapt the musical distribution for their voices-either to be sung accompanied by musical instruments or without-identical to the Polyphonic method for classical music composition (Fuga) without any deviation from the original composition. The ‘Tri Orient’ group also added to newly composed songs to their collection to suit their musical tastes. One of the major strengths of the ‘Tri Orient’ is that they can adapt to singing eastern and western music professionally. They had different religious and musical concerts in Lebanon, Jordan, Abu Dhabi, France, Belgium, Canada, Cairo, Alexander and Bahrain.