Outail Maaoui, biography

Outail Maaoui is a Tunisian violinist and composer born in Tunis in 1982.

He is a violinist with the Tunisian National Orchestra, teaches violin at the Centre national des arts populaires de Sidi Saber, and was an assistant professor at the Institut superieur de musique de Tunis from 2013 to 2017. His trilogy of shows comprises Liqaa (2014), Ombres d'Atlas (created 2024 at the Nuits du Musee de Sousse and presented at the Journees musicales de Carthage) and Sada Atlas, performed at the Hammamet International Festival in July 2026. He has won the Tanit d'argent at the Journees musicales de Carthage and the first prize of the Festival de la chanson tunisienne.