Hanna Anis Khuri is a Palestinian-Israeli violin soloist in the Western classical tradition. Born to a musical family, Khuri started his violin studies in his native hometown Tarshiha with Mr. Victor Yaacov. At age 10 he was invited by Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky (Royal College of Music) to join Keshet Eilon International String Mastercourse where he was introduced to distinguished violin professors and performers with whom he studied, most notably: Ms. Osnat Yehieli, Professor Arthur Zisserman (Tel-Aviv University,) Professor Hagai Shaham (Tel-Aviv University), Professor Ani Schnarch (Royal College of Music), and Professor Haim Taub. He also attended workshops and masterclasses with violin virtuoso Shlomo Mintz and other esteemed faculty of Keshet Eilon. He continued his studies with Professor Moti Schmitt at Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (JAMD), where he appeared as a soloist with the university orchestra. In his late teens, Khoury joined the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and under the recommendation of Professor Edward Said and Maestro Daniel Barenboim decided to pursue a solo violin career as a student of Professor Mark Kaplan at UCLA. He toured with the Divan while studying closely with Maestro Daniel Barenboim and members of Staatskapelle Berlin: Violin with Professor Mathis Fischer and Professor Axel Wilczok, viola with Professor Felix Schwartz, and chamber music with Professor Matthias Glander. He pursued graduate studies in violin performance with Professor Helen Kwalwasser at Temple University where he also studied chamber music with Professor Charles Abramovic and Professor Sidney Curtiss and orchestral excerpts with musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra: viola with Professor Choong-Jin (C.J.) Chang and Professor Che-Hung Chen, and violin with Professor Luis Biava. In addition to violin, Dr. Khuri studied viola with Professor Choong-Jin (C.J.) Chang. Dr. Khuri graduated Magna Cum Laude with departmental honors from UCLA with a Bachelor's in Economics and Music Performance, and obtained his Master's degree in Music from Temple University. He received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 where he worked with Professor Carol Muller and Professor Timothy Rommen to develop semester-long performance workshops that introduce Arab music in university settings. While at UPenn, he taught violin at the prestigious UPenn’s Blutt College House Music Program. In addition to classical music, Dr. Khuri directed an award winning concert series that present traditional Arab music with a resident takht. He is the winner of numerous awards and grants that include the the A.M. Qattan Foundation grant and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. An Advocate of a just two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Dr. Khuri partnered with Virtuoso cellist Ohad Bar David of the Philadelphia Orchestra on many projects that include performances in Palestine and Israel with performances at the Nativity Church in Bethlehem, a concert in Khuri's hometown Tarshiha, and many concerts in Europe the U.S. and Canada. He recorded  the Beethoven Cycle with maestro Barenboim and the Divan Orchestra and he is currently working to record the Bach Sonatas and Partitas, Paganini's 24 Caprices, and Ysaye Sonatas for Solo Violin to be released in 2028. Dr. Khuri performs on a violin made at the workshop of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, an early twentieth century German violin, and a viola made at the Workshop of John Betts.