TriOrient

TriOrient is a group of three Lebanese singers and sisters: Amale Tomb Abi Ghanem, Ronza (Aida Tomb) and Fadia Tomb El-Hage. TriOrient formed in 1994.

The sisters sang together on more than one occasion in their youth. First, in their local parish church choir, then as triplet singing on stage and later singing together on a TV youth program.

As the sisters grew, Amale 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.

Aida Tomb, later was known for her stage name Ronza (Arabic رونزا or رونزى) is a teacher in Le Conservatoire Libanais National Supérieur de Musique. Ronza began her singing career as a soloist with the Rahbani Brothers. She worked with them on several TV programs including the famous Sa'a W Ghniye and later in theater including A'Chakhs. Then after that she worked with Mansour Rahbani's sons Ghady,Marwan & Oussama Rahbani. Also, she is always working with the NDU Choir as a teacher and singing in their concerts and albums. She earned a diploma in classical and opera singing at the National Conservatoire in Beirut, and 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 than 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 singing to the tunes of the 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; 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.

Family

Their father, Maroun Tomb, was a painter. Their mother was also a singer. She studied singing at the Lebanese National Conservatoire.