The Arab Cultural & Community Center is thrilled to announce a performance of classical and contemporary Arabic music in Union Square. The production is a co-presentation with Jewels in the Square and is free to all.
Wednesday, April 27
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Union Square
Free
The performers include:
Dalia Marina (vocals) is a Palestinian American, born and raised in the Bay Area. In addition to Arabic music, Dalia is trained in Western classical vocal technique as well as on piano and flute. She began singing in Arabic a year and a half ago.
John Erlich (oud): A native of Sacramento, John was a founding member and musical director of "Za’atar: Music of the Jews of Arab & Muslim Lands" from 1997 - 2008. He is an amateur Near Eastern ethnomusicologist and an avid traveler. John studied jazz guitar and composed and performed jazz for many years before turning his attention to Middle Eastern music. He derived a great deal of inspiration from a year spent in Akko, Israel, where he worked and lived among Arabs, and Jews with roots in the Caucasus, Uzbekistan, and North Africa. He has studied oud with Naser Musa, Necati Çelik, and Haig Manoukian. John has also performed with the Sephardic ensemble Estreya d’Oro and recorded with Cantor Richard Kaplan.
Elizabeth Stuart (percussion): Elizabeth has toured nationally with the World/Jewish music group
Vocolot since 1998, and has been a member of the Bay Area-based Middle Eastern music ensemble, Tahneen, since 1995. She studied doumbek (a Middle Eastern drum) with Susu Pampanin and Reda Darwish. Elizabeth has performed live as a percussionist with Anne Bluethenthal and Strong Current dance companies and composed and recorded original music scores for three modern dance pieces choreographed by Chimene Pollard. She has also composed, arranged, sung and played keyboards for jazz, rock, musical theater and new music genres.
Sarah Michael (qanun) trained as a composer of western music, and has written a great deal of chamber music, several works for orchestra, and two chamber operas. She began to study Arabic music about 10 years ago, working with Elias Lammam on Arabic accordion and maqam theory, and Jamal Sinno on qanun. She has performed with various ensembles including Aleph Null, a Persian-jazz fusion band, El Azifoon, an Arabic dance band, and Aswat, a community chorus and orchestra that performs Arabic music.
Hector Bezanis (ney - Arabic flute) is a musician and instrument maker specializing in the woodwind family, and plays music of the Arabic countries, Greece and the Balkans.
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