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The Common Routes of Euro-Mediterranean Music presents EuroMed Music Festival 2010 3rd edition Budapest / Hungary, Belgrade / Serbia, Katowice / Poland With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union (EACEA) Organiser: Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism – Hungary Co-organiser: Ars Cameralis – Poland Co-organiser: Multikultivator - Serbia Contact: Zoltán Kátay, program director Mob: +36-70-422-58-14 Fax: +36-70-900-2-888 [email protected] Said Tichiti, program manager Mob: +36-30-425-17-16 [email protected] Following two successful events in 2007 and 2009 the third edition of the EuroMed Music Festival will take place - with the support of the European Union Culture Programme 20072013 - from the 3rd to the 13th of June 2010 in three cities in East and Central Europe: Budapest (Hungary), Belgrade (Serbia) and Katowice (Poland). This year the program was selected to become part of the UNESCO International Year of Rapprochement of Cultures 2010 program series. The Festival wishes to respond to current social problems, when gaps continue to exist between civilizations and cultures, when the individuals have to face with a society that becomes more and more multicultural. The musicians – whose origins roots back to twelve different countries and cultures – will spend 5 days in Budapest sharing their experiences in a variety of traditional and modern musical genres. They are supposed to use Arab, Jewish, African, Balkan and jazz music elements for the creation of nine new world music products that will be first staged during the three-day festivals closely following each other in the three cities. In Budapest the centrally located popular place, the Gödör Klub’s open air terrace will give the space for the debut performances. This year, beside nine Hungarian musicians taking part in the event, Tunisia, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Portugal, Serbia and Poland will also be represented. What can be the fruit of the meeting of professional musicians coming from different corners of the globe and how they can manage to build bridges through music and reach the audience attention? Forty-five venturesome artists with a vast international experience will look for the answer during the event and will do their best to open their ears and mind to understand each other and create a unique sound of fusion of traditional and modern music elements. The organizers who attempt the third time to create nine collaborations gave the opportunity for young talented musicians and artists who already past rich years in the professional scene and reached high reputation in smaller or wider scale. The audience will be the first to listen to the meeting of – just to name a few - the Africanbluesy unique voice of the Belgian Minata Traoré with the Tunisian young oriental violin player Youssef Haj, the meeting of the world wide famous Portuguese Rão Kyao and the Turkish Oud player, Mehmet Polat who might find bridges between Far-East, Turkish and Fado musical heritage, or the creation between the virtuoso Israeli Oud player Sameer Makhul and well-known Serbian bass player Vasilic Nenad and Hungarian percussionist Kornél Horváth. You can also listen to the songs of modern flamenco singer Paloma Povedano accompanied by Tunisian Quanun player Daly Triki, or the promising young talent pianist Omri Mor, the Middle Eastern percussionists Yinon Muallem and Ayman Mabrouk, Belgian saxophonist Manuel Hermia, the Serbian vocalist Bojana Nikolic, the 2 Hungarian multi-instrumentalist Béla Ágoston or the Egyptian Mohammed Antar who plays various types of Ney. The endless list can be continued with full of great artists of the surrounding area. The artistic production will result from a collective creation, thus supporting new European identities, cultural pluralism and enforcing mutual enrichment of contemporary creations between Europe and its Mediterranean neighbors. The aim of the festival is also to show how music can be a mediating tool between cultures, and how a point can be reached where the different cultures join, creating new, universal values. The event was first held in 2007 in Budapest for the initiative of the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism and with the support of the Anna Lindh Foundation. Additional information: www.cremm.com , [email protected] Dates: Budapest - June 8-10, 2010 Belgrade – June 9-11, 2010 Katowice – June 11-13, 2010 Organiser: Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism Co-organizers: Multikultivator servis za razvoj kulture i umetnosti (Belgrade, Serbia) Ars Cameralis Silesiae Superioris (Katowice, Poland) 3 EuroMed Music Festival 2010 BUDAPEST 20.00 21.30 22.45 8th of June, 2010. Marc Egea ES - hurdy-gurdy Ljubinko Lazic RS - double bass Béla Ágoston HU - saxophone Jolanta Kossakowska PL - violin / fiddle / vocal Yinon Muallem IL - percussions 9th of June, 2010. Kari Ikonen FIN - piano Rui Vinagre PT- portuguese guitar Endre Kertész HU - cello 10th of June, 2010. Rao Kyao PT - bamboo flutes Henryk Gembalski PL - violin Péter Nagy HU - Double bass Marko Stojiljkovic RS - bass guitar Noam David IL - drums Akash Batt RS / IND - tabla, derbuka Mehmet Polat TR – oud, vocal Armando Illario IT - accordeon Vasilic Nenad RS - double bass Kornél Horváth HU - percusssions Jan Mlejnek PL - clarinet, tambura Sameer Makhul IL - oud / vocal Manuel Hermia BEL - flutes, saxophone Dejan Zaric RS - percussions, mouth harp Gábor Subicz HU - trumpet Marcin Oles PL - double bass Omri Mor IL - piano Tuur Florizoone BEL - accordeon Mihály György HU - mandolin, guitar Bojana Nikolic RS - vocal Bogusz Wekka PL- percussions Mohamed Antar EGY- ney Luís Peixoto PT - bandolim, cavaquinho, Salamon Eredics HU - accordeon, flutes Nebojsa Brdaric RS - frula, kaval, duduk Michal Jaros PL - double bass Ayman Mabrouk EGY - percusisions Paloma Povedano ES - vocal Dávid Torják HU – bass guitar Lav Kovac RS - drums Andrzej Krośniak PL - guitar Daly Triki TUN - quanun Aleix Tobies ES - percussions Minata Traoré BEL- guitar, vocal Viktor Hárs HU - bass guitar Jerzy Mazzoll PL - bass clarinet Youssef Haj TUN - violin BIOGRAPHIES June 8, 2010 - 20.00 Marc Egea - hurdy-gurdy, flabiol ES He began his career as a professional musician in 1990 with the trio “Musics de Safeu” and later with “Pont d'Arcalís”. Since 2005 he has been a freelance musician and has played with numerous national and international artists in many different musical styles. He was a founder member of the quartet “Kaulakau”, the “Maram Trio”, the “Peter Skuce & Marc Egea Duo”, amongst others. He is a member of the Barcelona Improvisors’ Orchestra. Ljubinko Lazic - double bass PL Born in Vojka, Serbia, in the family of musicians, Ljubinko took his first double bass lesson with Professor Goran Kerleta in Novi Sad University of Music in 1993. In 2001 he received his first music diploma of excellence from Montenegro University of Music. He received also the third prize of the International Double Bass Competition in Kromeriz, the Prize of the European Culture in Germany, and the first prize of four national contests in his native Serbia. He is the member of the double bass quartet "Bassiona Amorosa". Béla Ágoston HU - saxophone, flutes HU He plays folk music and folk-music-inspired improvisations on the bagpipe, shepherds’ flute and saxophone. His folk music arrangements and compositions are inspired by the deep study of the Carpathian Basin’s folklore, and this is how his own improvisational musical style has formed, which carries the musical culture of old times and at the same time produces a modern, contemporary sound. Jolanta Kossakowska - voice, violin PL Jolanta Kossakowska plays the violin and medieval fiddle and sings in early and ethnic music groups. She graduated in Oriental Studies from Warsaw and Hamburg Universities, where she majored in music of Ethiopian Church. She is a member of Mosaic, Polish band linking traditional and early music. Yinon Muallem - percussions IZR Yinon was born in Israel in 1968 to parents of Iraqi origin. He began his musical career playing latin percussion but was drawn to Middle Eastern music going back to his roots. In 1998 he began playing the oud and later went to Istanbul to study with Yurdal Tokcan. In 2003 He released his second album Klezmer for the Sultan in 2005. In addition to composing, performing and recording, Yinon conducts percussion workshops and has released an Instructional D.V.D. on Middle Eastern percussion. June 8, 2010 - 21.30 Armando Illario - accordeon ITA Diploma in harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano at the Conservatory of Milano, and degree in piano at the Conservatory of Novara, Italy and he is about to take an MA at the faculty of Musicology, University of Cremona. He was active member as a pianist, composer and arranger of the band “Juba Lane”, research and contamination project of the ethno-jazz scene, which won the 1st prize at the Italian jazz contest “Fiesole jazz” in 1999. At the moment he is active as accordionist, composer and arranger, in world music band “Tri Muzike”. Vasilic Nenad - double bass RS He finished high school in Nis with majors in choir arrangement, theory, and classical double bass. He had further education at the University Music School in Graz, Austria with a major in Jazz double bass and electric bass. After appearing as a sideman in various international line-ups alongside the likes of Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan and the trumpeter Steve Gut, Vasilic started his own band in 1998. The focus of the band's musical approach became more clearly defined, resulting in a fusion of European jazz and improvised music with melodies and rhythms from the vast store of Balkan folk music. Kornél Horváth - percusssions HU He started his musical career as a flutist , but later he became interested in the world of percussion music. Today Kornél is not only the most sought-after percussionist in his country but he is also well known all over Europe. He is a jazz musician whose music is strongly rooted in the traditions of his homeland, Hungary and of eastern Europe - at the same time elements of African, Indian, Arab and Latin American music can be revealed fusing in a unique sound that is very much characteristic of his music. Jan Mlejnek - clarinet, tambura PL Graduated of Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. He worked together with one of the best polish theatres "Wierszalin". He is co-founder of ethno-jazz band „Sarakina” and he played numerous concerts in his country and abroad, like Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Italy. He edited two CDs in collaboration with the II. Polish Radio Program, awarded with the title "Folk phonogram of the Year". Sameer Makhoul - oud IZR Sameer Makhoul was born in Peki'in in Galilee, a village renowned for its poets. He comes from a family of musicians and poets whose roots in the village reach back for generations, and was profoundly influenced by the cultural environment in which he grew up. He is composer, musician and singer graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music, where he studied under the internationally famous oud player, Taiseer Elias. He has appeared, both as a soloist and with the Andalusian Muwashahat Orchestra (Tarshiha) and in many other ensembles. Sameer Makhoul released his first album, the Footprints that received remarkable reviews and is loved by an audience of people understanding and appreciating Arabic and world music. June 8, 2010 - 22.30 Luís Peixoto - bouzouki, bandolim, cavaquinho PT He is multi-instrument player graduated of Conservatório de Música de Coimbra and Academia de Música de Lagos. He had Mandolin and Cavaquinho Courses from Secção de Fado da Associação Académica de Coimbra Music School, and Portuguese Guitar Course from Secção de Fado da Associação Académica de Coimbra Music School. He played as integrate musician in "Dazkarieh", "Stockholm Lisboa Project", “Folkquest”, ”Salamander”, “Rondel”, ”Monte Lunai”, "All Wind and Piss", ”Estudantina Universitária de Coimbra” and “Grupo de Cordas da Secção de Fado da A.A.C.” Salamon Eredics - accordeon, flutes HU He graduated of the Liszt Academy of Music in 2008 at the departement of folk music. He is the youngest member of Söndörgö band whose music based on Southern Slav folk traditions. The classical music plays an important role in his life, which he plays when he was member of old music band player Sonora Hungarica Consort. He played as guest solist in Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, and made records with Zoltan Kocsis. Nebojsa Brdaric - frula, kaval, duduk RS He was born in Sombor in 1990. When he was 10, he started to learn Serbian pipe, a small wooden instrument, with wide range of possibilities.Soon after he was pronounced as the First Prize Winner of the eminent Serbian contest of pipe players in Prislonica. With his sister 2 Bojana - who took part in EuroMed Music Festival in 2009, - they was pronounced as the biggest discovery in Jeka audition, organized by Channel 3, of Radio Television of Serbia in 2004. He took part on many recording sessions for the famous Serbian singers of the traditional music. In 2009 he graduated of the music high school in Belgrade. Michal Jaros - double bass PL Graduate of Warsaw's Fryderyk Chopin Music School Jazz Studies Program and the Jazz and Popular Music Department of the Katowice Academy of Music. Competitions in which he has participated and won awards include Grand Prix at the Jazz on the Oder'96 Festival, Jazz Juniors Cracow'02 and the “Swinging Raven” Award at Hot Jazz Spring Czestochowa'03. He performed with many premiere jazz musicians: Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Ronnie Cuber, Judy Bady, Janusz Muniak, Zbigniew Namyslowski,Piotr Wojtasik, Maciej Sikala, Piotr Baron, Bernard Maseli, Grazyna Auguscik, Aga Zaryan, Grzegorz Karnas, MichalTokaj, among others. Ayman Mabrouk - percusisions PL Ayman Mabrouk was born in Alexandria in 1983, right in the deepness of the Arabic culture. He grew up listening and exploring many different oriental music styles. He began to work professionally as a percussionist with some of the most respected bands of the traditional oriental music scene like the Alexandria Opera House Band. few years later he has been featured on many television shows as well as at Jazz & World Music festivals in Egypt, Malta and Lebanon. Mastering a large variety of percussion instruments such as the Darbuka, Riq, Cajon, frame drums, congas, Azerbaijani naghara, bongos, Djembe and many others. June 9, 2010 - 20.00 Kari Ikonen - piano FIN Kari Ikonen has studied piano and composition at the Sibelius-Academy Jazz Department, from where he got a Master of Music degree in 2001. He has also studied at the Jyväskylä Music Institute and the Rotterdam Conservatory in Holland. In addition to his own ensemble Karikko he plays the piano and other keyboards in the jazz-folk ensemble Ahava, the electroacoustic improvisation trio Gnomus, the art-pop/world/jazz trio SLO Motive, and jazz groups Mr Fonebone and Markus Holkko Quartet, performing frequently in Finland and abroad. Ikonen’s playing and compositions can be heard on more than 20 records. He works as a part-time teacher at the jazz departments of the Sibelius-Academy and at the Estonian Music Academy in Tallinn. Rui Vinagre - guitar PT Rui Vinagre has started his study of Portuguese Guitar in Coimbra in 1996, in the section of Fado from the Academic Association of Coimbra, and later in the “Escola da Guitarra, da Viola e do Fado de Coimbra”. In 1998 he creates the project “Despertar”, composed essentially by a repertoire of the master of Portuguese Guitar, Carlos Paredes. At the same time he worries about playing the Portuguese Guitar with the correct existing techniques, through the performing of the traditional repertoire composed for this instrument, he also dedicates himself to the composition and exploration of the instrument in the scope of new and original paths for the instrument and for its performing techniques. Since 2009 he is teaching Portuguese Guitar at the School of Arts in Sines. He continues to study composition and jazz music at the same school. Endre Kertész - Cello HU He was born in 1979 in Szentendre. He began playing the cello at the age of five in the Vujisics School of Music and he continued to study from the first cellist of the Budapest Opera House, Párkány Tibor and later from Wolfgang Herzer, the first cellist of Vienna Opera 3 House. He played baroque music and contemporary compositions, Arabic music and jazz. He is a restless and open character musician. Marko Stojiljkovic - bass guitar RS He was born in 1979 in Krusevac. Started playing bass guitar at the age of 14, and since then has been a member of several bands. In 2007, he became a resident member of EYOT, a serbian band playing a mixture of styles like ambiental,ethno, punk and jazz. he is highly interested in getting to know not only different styles of foreign bass players, but also orientations of world musicians, their way of playing and performing music they created. Noam David - drums IL Noam David has born in Jerusalem in 1971.Studied in 1985 in Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem from Jerry Garaval. For the first time he performed in Eilat jazz festival in the age of 15 with Steve Hornstein. In 2005 Noam started his own project, as the main composer, drummer and singer. In this project, in addition, he displays his phenomenal multiinstrumentalist's abilities on trumpet, piano, oud, guitar and percussion. In his music Noam David innovates his own polyrhythmic conception of the group playing. In the same time his music touches every listener with mid-eastern atmosphere, together with sincere simplicity of songs and great improvisations. June 9, 2010 - 21.30 Manuel Hermia - flutes, saxophone BEL Manuel plays different saxophones, but also flute and especially the north indian flute, the bansuri. Improvisor, composer and explorator of the musics from the world, Manu developped personnal projects in different directios at the same time: in jazz with the "Manuel Hermia Quartet", in a band "Slang" that definitively mixes all kind of musical styles and goes beyond all kinds of borders, and in world music with his bansuri with « "Le Murmure de l’Orient". We also heard him playing with numerous artists from many cultures, Mamady Keita / Guinea, Dhruba Ghosh / India, Regis Gizavo /Madagascar, Fred Wesley / USA, Ben Ngabo / Rwanda, Joao Braga /Brasil, Dobet Gnahoré /Ivory Coast, Pierre Van Dormael /Belgium, Nono Garcia /Spain, Manou Gallo /Ivory Coast, Abid Bahri /Moracco, Karim Baggili/ Lebanon, among others. Dejan Zaric - percussions, moutharp RS After rather turbulent youth in Belgrade moved to Amsterdam in 1991, ahead of tragic ExYugoslavia wars. Soon starts intense travelling through southern Europe, Middle East, North Africa and South-East Asia for a period of the next ten years.Music has guided his travels and he developed strong interest and passion for traditional percussion instruments and moutharpes. During four years stayed in India and Pakistan studied Hindustani classical tradition on tabla and Karnatic rhytm tradition on morsing SouthIndian moutharpe,frequently visiting and staying with Langa musicians of Rajasthan, Punjabi ghazal and Afghani Pashtun musicians in Peshawar and ecstatic Baul community in West Bengal. At the begin of millenium returned to the Balkans to explore his own cultural heritage. Gábor Subitz - trumpet HU He was born in 1983 in Debrecen. He started to play the trumpet in his childhood, and to deal with jazz in 2002, as a pupil of Fekete-Kovács Kornél. He graduated in 2008 at the Jazz Institute of Liszt Academy of Music. In 2008 he won the 3rd prize and audience award at the Tomsits Rudolf National Jazz Trumpet Contest, and won the first prize at the Balatonfüred Jazz Festival as a member of Molnár Sándor Quintet. He leads a group called SG5 playing his own dirty jazz-funk compositions regularly in Budapest's jazz clubs. He is a member of Fekete-Kovács Kornél's contemporary jazz and classical bigband, the Modern Art Orchestra. He also composes for this group. 4 Marcin Oles - double bass PL Marcin Oles is a double bass player with his own voice, phrasing and melodic patterns whose work blurs genre borders. He develops an virtuoso technique as pizzicato and arco thumb position as well. He is a composer and an improviser, a jazz musician and contemporary/new music player and music producer. He writes music for movies and plays as well and he compose for his projects. Omri Mor - piano IZR He studied classical music at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music, under the guidance of Prof. Benjamin Oren and Dr. Assaf Zohar, and jazz piano with Prof. Slava Ganelin and saxophone legend and educator Arnie Lawrance. Omri's musical repertoire ranges from classical music and jazz, to Latin and afro-cuban music. In the past few years he became deeply interested in North-African Andalus music, following his participation in numerous projects with the Magreb Orchestra. It is not surprising that his playing combines elements from a wide variety of styles and genres. June 9, 2010 - 22.30 Paloma Povedano - vocal ES A singer, composer and dancer and leader of Almasäla. She was the singer of Ojos de Brujo on their first album, Vengue. In her album Ahora, Paloma keeps on experimenting with flamenco, combining it with musical styles such as soul, jazz or Latin jazz, mixing and spicing it all up with electronic loops. She collaborated with various artists from Barcelona’s exciting musical scene. With Eolh, she made the World Music Charts Europe and the FNAC talents, and was invited to perform at many festivals throughout Europe and was selected for Womex and Popkomm. Dávid Torják HU- bass guitar After 12 years of classical training he turned to pop music and the electric guitar. He founded his first group in 1991. At that time his main activity turned to rock and rhythm & blues, but in the following years his attention turned gradually toward jazz and funk, although at the same time he played in groups of various sorts. The next big change occured in 1999, when he became interested in exploring ancient tribal cultures, the roots of music. It was around that time that he abandoned the guitar in favor of the bass. He founded Monophonic in 2001. During summer 2005 he was invited into Chalaban, a representative of traditional Moroccan and Gnawa music. In 2006 he graduated from the Jazz Department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. Since Spring 2008 he become member of M.É.Z , hungarian band based on Irish-Celtic-Scottish traditions. Lav Kovac - drums RS Andrej-Lav Kovac started playing classical percussion at the age of 10. He finished Music High School "Isidor Bajic" in Novi Sad. He participated in the State competition for classical percussion two times, in 2006 & 2008, and won first prizes both times. As a professional musician, he played occasionally in Symphony Orchestra of Vojvodina, Symphony Orchestra of Academy Of Arts in Novi Sad and of SMS "Isidor Bajic", Sidewinder Quintet, Boris Kovac & Crossing Worlds, Darko Rundek. He is a regular band member of Boris Kovac & La Campanella, with which he played across Europe. Andrzej Krośniak - guitar PL Andrzej Krosniak was born in Zabrze, Poland. He is a guitarist and composer, initiator and leader of two orginal polish bands: the world music formation "Pejzaz" world music and the "Cocotier", one of the most recognized buskers bands in Poland, presents a unique mélange of folk, flamenco, jazz and Latino music, original compositions that express the musical 5 sensibility of the leader. Andrzej also works as a teacher in the music school in Zabrze. During his career he played in many countries such as Czech Republic, Holand, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Austria. Daly Triki - quanun TUN Daly Triki was born in Sfax in musician family in Tunesia. His father, Mabrouk Triki, is one of the most popular musician in Tunisia. After the Bachelor and courses in a private academy, Daly continued his studies in music and musicology at the Higher Institute of Sfax. He was involved in the practice of percussion and accordion before learning qanun. He is member of Wa Awtar Adware and Trio Rondo Tunisiano. June 10, 2010 - 20.00 Rao Kyao - flutes, saxophone PT He found inspiration in jazz and then in indian, arabian and chinese music searching the lost link of traditional portuguese music and the Orient. In 1983 Rão Kyao released “Fado Bailado” that year, which was the first platinum given to a portuguese record. Since “Fado das Canas” till the well known “Mariquinhas”, Rão Kyao evokes the voices of Amália Rodrigues, Alfredo Marceneiro, Hermínia Silva and Lucília do Carmo. As in «Fado Bailado», once again Rão Kyao took fado to a new dimension. 1999 - Recorded “Junção” with the Macau’s Chinese Orchestra and composed the official anthom for the ceremony of transference of the territory of Macau to China. Henryk Gembalski - violin PL Improvising violinist. Winner at Jazz On Odra 1978 Festival in Wrocław, as well as at The 1st International Jazz Violinists Competition "Golden Bow" in Szczecin in 1984. He has recorded over 30 records, and he has written music to 30 theatrical plays. He performed in USA, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Scotland, China, Hungary, Russia, and Czech Republic. He is a teacher in the violin class at the Institute of Jazz of Music Academy in Katowice. Péter Nagy - Double bass HU He was Born in 1966 in Budapest. He studied natural sciences and double bass in Budapest Bartok Bela Music High School he graduated of Liszt Academy of Music in 2000. Since 1990 he plays in various bands from ethno and ethno-jazz scene and participated in many theater and contemporary dance performances. He is member of the following bands: Nigun, the Eichinger Quartet, Plastic Septet, Agnes Lakatos Quartet, Syntax Cinema Orchestra. Akash Batt RS / IND - tabla, derbuka Akash was born in the city of Ahmadabad in India. He is an architect and musician. He was trained in the traditional “Banaras Gharana” manner of playing ‘tabla’ and plays various percussion, but he mostly uses a conterporary style in his playing. He lives in Serbia for ten years and loves the folk music of the country very much and has found certain similarities with the folk music of Gujarat. He enjoys the combination of free style playing tabla and the rhythms from the Balkans. Mehmet Polat - oud TR Mehmet Polat was born in Sanliurfa city in Turkey in 1981. He started music with the Turkish folk instrument baglama when he was 5 years old. From beginning that age, he practiced Turkish Alevi music and traditional folk music from Urfa in traditional way. After the age of 17, he moved to Istanbul, and started to Classical Turkish music and ud studying from Sharif Muhittin Haydar Targan's method. Besides of the benefits of the high technical possibilities, he was able to try different styles on the ud with his new technic. As his ever ongoing 6 researches will always be continuing, he had some influences of Turkish folk, Arabic, Azerbaijan, Persian, Flamenco and Jazz in his ud playing. June 10, 2010 - 21.30 Tuur Florizoone - accordeon BEL Accordionist Tuur Florizoone has very quickly grown into the most adored musician in Flanders. Jazz is only one of the many types of music this musical world citizen has in his kit bag. The fact that he is comfortable in pop as well as in world music is obvious from the endless list of names with whom he has shared the stage or the recording studio. Melancholic and simple melodies that lead into an all-embracing palette of emotions and colours are Tuur's forte. Making as much music as possible with as few resources as possible. Mihály György - mandolin, guitar HU Having graduated from the Jazz Conservatory he entered the quartet of Mohai brothers and also gave duo concerts with Gábor Juhász. Then he formed together with Péter Glaser and Győző Mohai a jazz-rock band of high standard named Handmade Trio. These days he plays in Europe and in the USA with the "Kálmán Balogh Gipsy Cimbalom Band" and also plays the bouzouki and the guitar in his earlier groups, the Syrtos, an orchestra of Greek folk music in Hungary and Kolo, the South Slavian folk music group. Bojana Nikolic - vocal RS She is finishing master studies from the Department of Ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade. She is also graduated from the department of Serbian Traditional Singing in High School „Mokranjac“. She started to sing professionally when she was fourteen, performing with most popular world music musicians and groups from Serbia and the Balkans: Sanja Ilic & „Balkanika“. Teodosi Spasov, Slobodan Trkulja, Ognjen Popovic & „Prijatelji“, Vasilisa, Vasil Hadzimanov, Dragan Milenkovic & “Hazari”, Dragoljub Djuricic, Madam Piano, “Biber” among others. Bogusz Wekka - percussion PL Bogusz Wekka was born in Bydgoszcz. We he started his music studies in 1998 and finished it in Katowice in 2003. Since 1997 he is playing many different kind of music and cooperating with such musicians like Bernard Maseli , Anna Serafinska, Paul Kaczmarczyk, Jurek Malek, Lora Szafran, Janusz Stoklosa, Dorota Miskiewicz, Anna Szarmach. He is also a member of groups - "Ritmodelia" and "Dziewczyny" ("Girls"). Bogusz Wekka connected his live with the RYTHM & MUSIC. Mohamed Antar - ney EG Egyptian musician, Ney player and conductor of Ensemble Munajah for meditative middleeastern music and Oriental Secrets Ensemble. Antar’s musical education started as early as his primary school where he learned how to play Piano, Flute-Recorder and Accordeon. He started to develop his Ney playing through studying with different masters belonging to the different Ney schools, until, in 2003, he decided to dispose himself of his post graduate studies in English and Comparative Literature and professionalise the Middle-eastern musical art. Having studied and mastered the three major Ney styles, namely Arab, Turkish and Persian ney styles, furnished a room for him to make his own Ney style which has characteristics of the above-mentioned schools. 7 June 10, 2010 - 22.30 Aleix Tobies - percussion ES He started to play 19 years ago, studying drums and percussion in different conservatories of modern music in Barcelona and continued studying traditional percussion by his own in different countries as Senegal, Gambia, Turkey, Brazil, Spain, Egypt. He played with great artist like Misirli Ahmet, Erkan Ogur, Ekan Irmak, Kostas Anastasiadis, Sengane N´Gom, Eliseo Parra, Lidia Pujol, Silvia Perez Cruz, Carmen Paris, Amine And Hamza, La Shica, Kepa Junquera Or The Flamenco Company Of Emilio Hernandez. With them he has been playing aground all Europe, Canada, Brasil, Mexico, Marroco, Tunis, Algerie, Egypt, Turkey and Senegal. He created the experimental percussion group "Tactequete" and the iberic percussion orchestra "Coetus". He participated in more than 40 albums of diferent artists and groups. Minata Traoré - guitar, vocal BEL Minata was born in Bobo-dioulasso, a small town of Burkina Faso. She’s been living in Belgium since she was 18. Minata is a song writer, a composer, a singer and a dancer. With a classical music education, classic guitar and opera singing, she charms us with melodies sometimes soft, sometimes bluesy, always carrying the experience of living within and between two continents: Africa and Europe. She expresses her music in a simple and poetic, yet very strong willed, way. Going from French to Dioula, her mother tongue, she jugles with traditional and European sonorities. A guitar à la Tracy Chapman, a voice evoking Khadja Nin’s, Minata gives us a sheer moment of pleasure. Viktor Hárs - bass guitar HU He started his musical studies at age of 15, on double bass and bass guitar simultaneously. From 1985 till 1988 he was studying on the Jazz Department of Béla Bartók Music Conservatory. In 1997, he released his first solo album with his originals, it was called Yellow. One year later he recorded his second CD, titled Contacts & Conflicts. Nowadays he is the member of following bands: Horgas Eszter Class & Jazz, Kozma Orsi Quartet, Summer Jazz Trio, HársHegyBand and the Modern Art Orchestra. Jerzy Mazzoll - bass clarinet PL He started playing the clarinet at the age of 8 inspired by the works of such great contemporary Polish composers as Lutoslawski and Gorecki. Founder and leader of several music groups. Composer of film and theatrical music. As an artist he takes part in numerous performances and events; an instance of such is the Diffusion Ensemble, which he founded with Robert Knuth. During his career Mazzoll played with the best Polish, European and American rock and jazz musicians, with such stars as Django Bates, Alfred Harth, Lasse Lindgren, Vytas Labutis, Peter Weniger, Bill Laswell, Per Goidschmidt, Jan Bengston, Nils Landgren, Kjeld Ipsen, Axel Windfeid, Tomasz Stanko. Youssef Haj - violin TUN He is a Tunisian composer, violinist and viola d’amore player. Jasser performs and records with many artists such as Sister Marie Keyrouz, Barbara Hendricks, Youssou N’Dour, Toufic Farroukh and Absolute Orchestra, Miguel Angel Estrella, Geoffroy De Masure, Elie Achkar and others. He performs at the UNESCO, Arab World Institute, Center of Arab and Meditarranean Music, Tunis Medina Festival, El Genina Theater, Petra, New Morning, Zénith, Opéra de Lille, Eglise de la Madeleine, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brusselles, l'Atrium, Martinique, Bonifacio, Venice, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. 8