In February 2022, Al Darb Al Ahmar Arts School, the Aga Khan Music Programme's education partner in Cairo, hosted students and professors from Geneva's Haute école de musique (HEM) for a week of workshops and master classes focused on wind instruments and percussion. HEM, Haute école de musique in Geneva and its Oriental Ensemble have developed a partnership with the Aga Khan ...
In October 2022, two young musicians and arts managers from Kyrgyzstan traveled to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Worldwide Music Expo (WOMEX). Their visit was organised by the Aga Khan Music Programme as part of its long-term support for arts education and tradition-based musical innovation in Central Asia. In addition to attending showcases of artists from all continents and visiting the professional ...
Sirojiddin Juraev, dutar Composed by Kuzikhon Madrahimov (1888-1954) Sirojiddin's virtuosic performance of "Qushtor" evokes the sound of flamenco guitar, and uses several of the fingering techniques typical of flamenco style: hammering down and pulling off on the strings with the left hand (ligado) while tapping the soundboard of the instrument with the right hand (golpe); and playing rhythmic rolls (rasgueado) and rapid ...
Performed by AKMM with special guest Andrea Piccioni Composed by Basel Rajoub Asya (a female name) is of Hebrew and Greek origin and means "God favored me." It is also the name of the composer's sister, for whom he wrote the piece. "I wrote 'Asya' in 7/8 time," said Basel Rajoub. "I really like 7/8, and I feel that it has my energy. ...
Performed by AKMM Composed by Abbos Kosimov Nawruz is the traditional Persian New Year, which coincides with the vernal equinox. Nowadays it is celebrated not only in Iran and Iranophone countries, but throughout Central Asia as well as in many Western countries as a sign of cultural inclusiveness and respect. Nawruz is a time of festivity and hopefulness for the year to come, ...
Composed and performed by Basel Rajoub A taqsim is an improvised prelude to a longer composition or suite in traditional Arabic and Turkish music, and is typically performed by a solo instrumentalist. In this taqsim, Basel Rajoub improvises on the duclar, a hybrid instrument that joins the single-reed mouthpiece of a clarinet to the body of the duduk--the Armenian double-reed woodwind instrument. ...
Performed by AKMM Composed by Feras Charestan Jul (pronounced Yule) Dance was inspired by folk music--specifically, the folk music of Sweden, where Feras Charestan now makes his home after leaving his native Syria. He wrote the piece as his contribution to a Christmas concert at the Swedish university where he was studying. Wu Man is an acclaimed performer on the pipa, a four-stringed ...
Composed and performed by Feras Charestan Samai (also transliterated sama'i or sema'i) is a venerable compositional form in Arabic and Ottoman classical music, typically in 6/8 meter. Performed both as secular art music and as part of the liturgical musical repertoire that accompanies the sacred dance of the Mevlevi Sufi order ("whirling dervishes"), samai continues to serve contemporary composer-performers, like Feras Charestan, as ...
Performed by AKMM Arranged by Wu Man Wu Man is an acclaimed performer on the pipa, a four-stringed Chinese lute with ancient roots that, due in large part to her efforts, has become a leading instrument of contemporary music in both East and West. Wu Man performs both traditional and contemporary music on the pipa, and many new works have been commissioned specially ...
Basel Rajoub, saxophone; Jasser Haj Youssef, viola d'amore; Feras Charestan, qanun Composed by Basel Rajoub (b. 1982) Basel Rajoub is a saxophonist and composer-improviser whose inspirations include traditional Middle Eastern rhythms and melodies as well as jazz. Born in Aleppo, Syria, he graduated from the Damascus High Institute of Music and creates new music that brings together musicians from the Middle East, North ...
Composed and performed on viola d'amore by Jasser Haj Youssef Jasser Haj Youssef was born in Monastir, Tunisia and studied both classical European music and classical Arabic music (maqām) from an early age. His first instrument was the violin. Later he began playing the Baroque viola d'amore, which has sympathetic string that are not bowed, but create a rich, resonant sound. Haj Youssef's ...
Basel Rajoub, saxophone; Jasser Haj Youssef, viola d'amore; Feras Charestan, qanun Composed by Basel Rajoub "Tashkent" was inspired by Rajoub's first visit to that city, which is the capital of Uzbekistan, where he found "sunshine, peace, and the smell of home." Said Rajoub, "I walked your streets and found this sound. I salute you." Basel Rajoub is a saxophonist and composer-improviser whose inspirations ...
Wu Man, pipa, Feras Charestan, qanun, Abbos Kosimov, doira Arranged from folk sources by Wu Man (b. 1963) "Teahouse" is an homage to the sound of the traditional silk and bamboo instruments played in teahouses in Wu Man's hometown area of Zhejiang Province, in China's southeast. Not long ago, Wu Man taught the quintessentially Chinese pentatonic melody of "Teahouse" to qanun player Feras ...
Sirojiddin Juraev, dutar and Abbos Kosimov, doira Composed by Sirojiddin Juraev (b. 1975) "Mehan" displays the virtuosic potential of the two-stringed dutar in the hands of a master as well as the prominent role of usul, the metro-rhythmic cycle played on the frame drum (doira). "Mehan" juxtaposes two different usuls: the first in 4/4 and the second in 7/8, a meter rarely ...
Jasser Haj Youssef, viola d'amore and Basel Rajoub, tárogató Composed by Jasser Haj Youssef This short and atmospheric composition evokes the sensibility of European Early Music but was written in fall 2020 in preparation for the present concert. This is its debut performance. Jasser Haj Youssef was born in Monastir, Tunisia and studied both classical European music and classical Arabic music (maqām) from an ...
Wu Man, pipa Composed and arranged from folk music sources by Wang Huiran (b. 1936) Wu Man is an acclaimed performer on the pipa, a four-stringed Chinese lute with ancient roots that, due in large part to her efforts, has become a leading instrument of contemporary music in both East and West. Wu Man performs both traditional and contemporary music on the pipa, ...
Performed by Wu Man, pipa, and Abbos Kosimov, doira Composed by Wu Man In this instrumental collage, Wu Man showcases the classical martial style of pipa music while also offering a nod to rock 'n roll. Wu Man is an acclaimed performer on the pipa, a four-stringed Chinese lute with ancient roots that, due in large part to her efforts, has become a ...
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Concert in Chiesa Evangelica Riformata in Ascona, 2014 ...
Concert in Chiesa Evangelica Riformata in Ascona, 2014 ...
Concert in Chiesa Evangelica Riformata in Ascona, 2014 ...
Bakbergen Sarymbetov, the son of Jaksylik Sarymbetov performing Qyrq Qyz, the oral epic story that was not preformed for the last 30 years. ...
