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Download 2017 Festival Program Here Asheville Percussion presents Festival Mosaic of Rhythm June 26 thru July 2, 2017 MASTERS CONCERT SATURDAY NIGHT JULY 1 8 p.m. at DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE FREE WORKSHOPS at ODYSSEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL ON JULY 1 This project is funded in part by the GRASSROOTS ARTS PROGRAM of the N.C. Arts Council, A division of the Department of reveal Natural & Cultural rejoice remember Resources, through revere rebirth the Asheville reclaim restore Area Arts Council. layneredmond.com 1 ashevillepercussionfestival.com 2 Mission Asheville Rhythm provides a creative environment where people of all skill levels and traditions gather to explore, innovate, educate and build community. Vision Asheville Rhythm seeks to create a culture that promotes wellness through rhythm and bridges musical traditions through innovative collaborations. We Provide Concerts Workshops/Classes Sound Meditations/Immersions Wellness Programs Residencies Free Public Events Recording and Audio Engineering Table of Contents Percussion Festival Welcome 5 2017 Artists 6 Intensive Program Schedule 12 Friday Schedule 16 Saturday Schedule 17 Sunday Schedule 18 Festival Sponsors 18 3 4 Welcome to the 6th Annual Asheville Percussion Festival! We’re excited about the remarkable mosaic of international and local artists who have gathered for this musical exchange of rhythm, culture, and innovation. The mission of the Asheville Percussion Festival is to promote and foster musical diversity through education and community building. This year’s theme, Mosaic of Rhythm, emphasizes the beauty and intricacy that arises from a conscious blending of varied musical traditions. We are grateful to our local and national sponsors for helping us manifest this intention by providing funding for artists, scholarships, delightful meals, rehearsal spaces, gear and much more. Both INTENSIVE PROGRAMS: World Percussion for Emerging Drummers and Intermediate/Advanced are for those who wish to experience a Percussion Immersion and take their playing to the next level. Classes will be given on a variety of drums and styles like Djembe, Conga, Frame Drums, Tabla, Doumbek, Tambourine, and more. Topics will also include improvising, composing, and mic techniques. The festival this year includes a free day of workshops, ensemble performances, awesome vendors, community drumming, dancing, a fantastic silent auction and more. As you join the workshops and concerts, listen for the rhythms of different musical traditions and pay attention to how your body responds. Hear and feel the common threads and unique patterns of the rhythms. Rejoice also in the community of drummers, dancers and sound explorers! We produce art to explore undiscovered worlds within ourselves and share them with others. We hope this festival helps you experience some of that collaborative, creative magic. In Rhythm, River, Tom, Rima, and the Rest of the Asheville Rhythm Team 5 2017 Artists OMAR FARUK TEKBILEK Honored as a peacemaker and virtuoso, his work transcends political boundaries while maintaining traditional sensibilities. He was a musical prodigy born in Turkey to a family who nurtured his precocious talents. Omar is one of the world’s foremost exponents of Middle Eastern music: a multi-instrumentalist par excellence (ney, zurna, baglama, oud, as well as percussion). His music is rooted in tradition, but has been influenced by contemporary sounds. He views his approach as “cosmic”; the four corners of which are mysticism, folklore, romance, and imagination. Like the man himself, his music symbolizes diversity-in-unity. He has collaborated with internationally recognizedmusicians such as Don Cherry, Karl Berger, ex-Cream rock drummer Ginger Baker, Ofra Haza, Simon Shaheen, Hossam Ramzy, Glen Velez, Bill Laswell, Mike Mainieri, Peter Erskine, Trilok Gurtu, Jai Uttal, Yasmin Levy, Tomatito, Enrique Morente and Steve Shehan among others. He has contributed to numerous film and TV scores, recorded many world sacred music albums, and toured extensively throughout the Middle East, Europe, Australia, North and South America. MURAT TEKBILEK Murat Tekbilek has been the lead percussionist in his father’s ensembles for a decade and has performed throughout the world. His instruments include darbuka (goblet drum), def and bendir (frame drums). 6 2017 Artists NAGHMEH FARAHMAND Naghmeh Farahmand is a Persian percussionist from a musical family and grew up in a house of full drums. Her father, Mahmoud Farahmand, is one of the leading percussion masters of Iran. She has studied tonbak, santoor, daf: all traditional Persian and Kurdish intruments. Naghmeh has performed in many well known Iranian traditional bands in Iran and festivals around the world: Germany, Switzerland, Japan (Min On Festival), France (La fete de la music), Italy, Kuwait (Women festival), Austria, and England. She has performed with Hassan Nahid, Iranian master of the ney and Hengameh Akhavan, a singer of traditional music. She now lives in Canada where she explores world music: Arabian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Indian and Jazz. She teaches master classes and workshops internationally. MARCUS SANTOS Marcus Santos is a native of Bahia, Brazil and commits his life to the study, teaching and performance of his hometown’s Afro-Brazilian music and heritage as well as World drumming diversity. He has performed for the president of Brazil, TEDx and with the “One World Band” produced by MTV. Marcus also played at the Sony Pictures Oscar nominated movie ‘Rachel’s getting Married’ with Anne Hathaway. He has been honored with the 2013 KOSA Recognition award, Outstanding Arts Performer Award by the Brazilian Immigrant Center (2008) as well as Outstanding Percussionist Award by Berklee College of Music in 2004. JIN WON South Korean artist Jin Won is an accomplished kathak dancer, tabla player, and music educator. Her love of Indian arts led her to live in India for over fifteen years before joining the Taalim School as a faculty member and artist. She is a tabla disciple of Pandit Divyang Vakil, and studied kathak under Shrimati Shubha Desai. While in India, she also worked with leading kathak choreographers. Her unconventional journey has been the subject of a documentary by the Korean Broadcasting Service and serves as an inspiration to many. Her passion is to spread Indian classical arts. She has authored a textbook on tabla, which is currently being translated into Korean. 7 2017 Artists YOUSIF SHERONICK KATHRYN LOCKWOOD Yousif Sheronick’s many musical influences are highlighted in duoJalal, his venture with violist and wife Kathryn Lockwood. Yousif has performed around the globe to critical acclaim, genre hopping with leading artists in the classical, world, jazz and rock music arenas. The New York Times hails Yousif for his “dazzling improvisations” and his “wizardry on a range of humble frame drums”. He was recently featured in Drum! Magazine highlighting his versatility in an article titled “At The Corner Of The World”. He grew up playing rock and roll drum set, studied classical percussion through a masters degree at Yale University and went on to study music from Brazil, India, Africa and the Middle East. He has performed with Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Branford Marsalis, Santana, Glen Velez and Paul Winter. Like Kathryn and Yousif’s marriage, duoJalal captures disparate worlds merging and represents an organic amalgam of cultural traditions and musical styles: a unique collaboration of a classical violist and world percussionist. KEVIN SPEARS Kevin Spears’ music is an acoustic electronic mix of Funk, Afro-beat, Latin, and Trance with a dash of rock that will move your feet and stir your soul. Considered by many as one of the best kalimba players alive today, Kevin Spears musical gifts have astounded audiences around the world and rewritten what was thought humanly impossible on this exotic musical instrument. His creativity has been compared to innovative legends such as Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix and Les Paul among others and his uncanny ability to play multiple musical and percussive ideas simultaneously in a live setting is iconic, pure and simple. 8 2017 Artists RIVER GUERGUERIAN River Guerguerian, Director of Asheville Rhythm, draws upon his richly diverse experiences, to play across a remarkable span of musical genres and traditions, both obscure and mainstream. As a highly regarded studio musician, River has recorded on over 200 albums and film soundtracks. He has performed with such groups as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, New Music Consort, Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble, Paul Winter Consort, Talujon Percussion Ensemble, Lizz Wright, Chuck Berry, Sophie B. Hawkins, and Ziggy Marley and The Gipsy Kings. DAVID KUCKHERMANN Multi-percussionist David Kuckhermann travels the world performing and teaching in Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Italy, Palestine, Tunisia, Brazil, Chile, France, Poland, Estonia, Ireland and the USA. His teachers include Glen Velez, Behnam Samani, Ramesh Shotham and Ustad Fayaz Khan. David created his personal style on frame drums, hang, and hybrid cajon, incorporating techniques and rhythms from the hand drumming traditions of Iran, India, Egypt, Europe, Turkey and Africa. He has worked with Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Dead Can Dance, Levent Yildirim, the medieval music ensemble Cordatum, Ahmad Al-Khatib, Taner Akyol, the Pera Ensemble, Riadh Feri, the Sicily Philarmonic Orchestra, Raquy and the Cavemen, Cristina Braga, Bassam Sabam, Mishra and Susan and Martin Weinert. JESSIE LEHMANN Jessie Lehmann has an innate passion that she brings to her performances
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