Ayman Asfour is a violinist and composer born in Alexandria in 1979. He graduated from the Faculty of Specific Education at Alexandria University, specializing in the violin. He then worked as a violin teacher at the same university for four years, before joining the music faculty at Helwan University for a postgraduate degree in 2001. He has collaborated with many musicians, composers and singers in Egypt, the Arab world and from around the world, such as Hazem Shaheen, Ali Eissa, Ghalia ben Ali, Maurice Louca, Natiq Aziz, Huda Asfour, and Roman Bunka. In 2012, he founded the Oufuqy Music Festival, which was held for six years in Alexandria.