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Mid East Music Ensemble @ U of C
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MIDDLE EAST MUSIC ENSEMBLE’S SPRING CONCERT



The University of Chicago Middle East Music Ensemble presents its final

concert of the season on Friday, April 30, 2004 at 6:00 p.m. at the

Oriental Institute’s Breasted Hall!

Established in 1997 by the Department of Music at the University of Chicago to enhance the Performance Program and to compliment the ethnomusicology graduate program, the Middle East Music Ensemble is comprised of members of the university community, students, and musicians from the Chicago area, performing a wide variety of Middle Eastern repertoire ranging from traditional folk melodies to contemporary instrumental and vocal works of the 20th and 21st centuries. Recent guest artists include Latif Bolat, one of the most well-known Sufi and Turkish folk musicians in the United States, and the Chicago branch of the Halveti-Jerrahi Order of Dervishes.

The Ensemble has become a unique multicultural forum performing music from Iran, Iraq, Assyria, Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Bosnia, Turkey, Tunisia, and Greece. According to director Issa Boulos, a distinguished Palestinian composer and established ‘ud player in Chicago, the concert is an “intensive _expression of our determination to present authentic music and spread the word about these diverse musical traditions.” Featured pieces on the program include: Goleh Gandom and Aziz Joon, two examples of traditional Persian folklore songs from the Mazindaran area; an improvisational solo performed by master Iranian Santour player Kiu Haghighi; Naghma’e Afghani, a song of tribute to legendary Afghan rubab player Ustad Mohammed Omar, performed by child prodigy Habibullah Wardak; Lylo Bagh, a Pashto love song expressing the pain of lovers separated by distance; plus Zaytun and Raqs al-Janub, two original compositions by Boulos.


Friday, April 30, 2004 at 6:00 p.m.

Breasted Hall at the Oriental Institute

1155 E. 58th Street; Enter from the main entrance on 58th Street

Free and open to the public; no tickets required



Members particpitating in the concert are:

Kinan Abou Afach, violoncello *

Walid al-Hajali, accordion *

Omar al-Musfi, percussion *

Weldon Anderson, Double Bass

Niko Banac, voice

Lidija Banovic, voice

David Bashwiner, 'ud

Shlimon Bet-Shmuel, composer/voice *

Esra Birinci, voice

Issa Boulos, 'ud, voice

Serpil Borazan, qanun

Antoinette Butros, voice

Anita Chari, violoncello

Iba` Ello, voice

Majd Ello, voice

Andreas Georgas, bouzouki

Ann Gepford, 'ud

Dave Grilly, clarinet

Kiu Haghighi, santur *

Lubna Haroun, voice

Kareem Khadder, voice

Muna Kuttab, voice

Hala Kuttab-Boulos, voice

Martin Stokes, qanun

Maged Mikhail, nay

Veronica Moreno, voice

Aboud Muaddi, 'ud

Dan Nicky, percussion

Naeif Rafeh, nay *

Ikhlas Salamaih , voice

Javier Saumai, percussion

Shayna Silverstein, violin

Jim Stoynoff, clarinet *

Ozgur Sumer, Baglama

Jamie Topper, bender

Duru Turkoglu, voice

Wanees Zarour, buzuq / violin

Habibullah Wardak, rubab *

Alexander Wing, 'ud

For the latest concert information, call the Concert Hotline: (773) 702-8069.



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