THE MEDITERRANEAN CONCERTPROGRAM PROGRAM OPENING SPEECH Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa Art transforms reality. Kingdom of Morocco Art can change the world. José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero When Onuart Foundation asked me to collaborate with The Fundación ONUART is honoured to organize The Former President of the Spanish Government, them in the staging of this concert, I thought it was Mediterranean Concert, the first concert to take place in Co-founder of the Alliance of Civilizations an excellent opportunity to present the music the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Chamber at REMARKS BY and culture of the Mediterranean peoples at the the Palais des Nations. The objective of this concert is to pay an important tribute to Mediterranean music and its value Michel Sidibé headquarters of the United Nations. I hope this in creating a common space between different civilizations Executive Director of UNAIDS musical event, under the protective roof of my friend of the Mediterranean Sea, promoting intercultural dialogue Miquel Barceló, serves to know each other better, to and understanding between civilizations. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser collaborate on new projects and, above all, to work United Nations High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations and to achieve, by the sea that unites us, a future in peace, full of hope and opportunity for all. Fathallah Sijilmassi Secretary-General for the Union for the Mediterranean Maria del Mar Bonet Miguel Ángel Moratinos President of Fundación ONUART 2 The Mediterranean Concert Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva 3 THE MEDITERRANEAN CONCERT PROGRAM SONG SINGER SONG SINGER 1. Merhaba Morocco’s Royal Symphony Orchestra 16. Chacun sa came Sapho VARIOUS AUTHORS AUTHOR: TRADITIONAL BRAZILIAN SONG LYRICS: SAPHO 2. Desde Mallorca a l’Alguer María del Mar Bonet 17. Mamam j’aime le voyous Sapho TRADITIONAL SARDINIAN SONG LYRICS: ALBERT GARCIA AUTHOR: SAPHO 3. La Dama d’Aragó María del Mar Bonet 18. El Altal (fragment) Sapho TRADITIONAL CATALAN SONG VERSION: MARIA DEL MAR BONET AUTHOR: OUM KALSOUM, RIAD SOMBATI AND IBRAHIM NAGUI 4. Sempre hi ha vent María del Mar Bonet 19. Bellaroussa Vakia Stravou TRADITIONAL MAJORCA SONG AUTHOR: VAKIA STRAVOU 5. Strosse to stoma sou María Farantouri and María del Mar Bonet 20. Thalassino nero Vakia Stravou AUTHOR: MIKIS THEODORAKIS POEM OF IAKOVOS KAMPANELLIS AUTHOR: VAKIA STRAVOU 6. Tis Dikaeosynis Helie Noete María Farantouri 21. Masâr Le Trio Joubran AUTHOR: MIKIS THEODORAKIS POEM OF ODYSSEUS ELYTIS AUTHORS: LE TRIO JOUBRAN 7. Adînu bidîni I-hubbi Aïcha Redouane 22. Sama Cordoba Le Trio Joubran AUTHORS: AÏCHA REDOUANE AND HABIB YAMMINE POEM OF IBN ARABÎ AUTHORS: LE TRIO JOUBRAN 23. Solstice Renzo Spiteri 8. Uhibbuka hubabayn Aïcha Redouane AUTHORS: RENZO SPITERI AUTHORS: AÏCHA REDOUANE AND HABIB YAMMINE POEM OF RÂBI’A AL-ADAWIYYA 24. O’ Surdato Innamorato Francesca Schiavo 9. Jay ala Bali Hani Mitwasi AUTHOR: ANIELLO CALIFANO AUTHOR: ZAID MODHE 25. Voce’ e Notte Francesca Schiavo 10. Ya Tair Ya Tayer Hani Mitwasi AUTHOR: EDOARDO NICOLARDI TRADITIONAL JORDANIAN SONG 26. Cette terre est pour nous tous Tania Kassis 11. Dido Yosra Zekri Al Ardou Lel Jami1 AUTHOR: JALOUL AYED This Land is for All 12. Trab Bledi Yosra Zekri AUTHORS: FADI RAI AND TANIA KASSIS The Concert will last AUTHOR: EMNA RMILI COMPOSER: MICHEL FADEL ON AN ADAPTATION OF CARL ORFF approximately 1 hour and 55 minutes without a break. 27. Islamo-Christian Ave Maria Tania Kassis with 13. Diamond in the Rough Hossam Ramzy Ara Malikian collaboration AUTHOR: HOSSAM RAMZY COMPOSER: GIULIO CACCINI ARRANGERS: TANIA KASSIS AND MICHEL FADEL All songs have been especially adapted for Morocco’s Royal 14. Vestida de nit Silvia Pérez Cruz 28. Bourdj Hammoud Ara Malikian Symphony Orchestra by The AUTHORS: CASTOR PÉREZ AND GLÒRIA CRUZ AUTHOR: ARA MALIKIAN Mediterranean Concert Music Director Mr Toni Cuenca. 15. Gallo rojo, Gallo negro Silvia Pérez Cruz 29. Southern Wind All the artists AUTHOR: CHICHO SÁNCHEZ FERLOSIO HYMN FOR PEACE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AUTHOR: TONI CUENCA 4 The Mediterranean Concert Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva 5 MOROCCO’S ROYAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Royal Symphony Orchestra of Morocco was created with the aim of promoting Moroccan musicians internationally, Toffering them a highly professional environment. It seeks to enrich the country’s artistic heritage and to enable a better dissemination of symphonic music. For this concert in the United Nations the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Morocco present a formation of 27 of its musicians: As part of its artistic seasons, the Fayz KASHKAROV 1st violin orchestra offers several programmes (chef d’attaque) Brahim EL HADDAOUI cello with different genres. Its repertoire Khadija CHAMKHI 1st violin (chef d’attaque) Saloua YAHYIOUI french horn ranges from classical music to Smail RAZIKI 1st violin Mohssine EL MAMOUNE cello Marouane MOUDAFI french horn contemporary works and jazz, not Soufiane BELATOUANI 1st violin Rachid BERRAI cello Ilham AKHELLAHYOUN drums and forgetting chamber music. The Orchestra has also successfully Ayoub QADMOUN 1st violin Khalid SLIFIA double bass percussion produced the ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Sanae EL HACHOUMI 2nd violin Hassan MIMOUNI flute Rachid EL KHLIFI trombone In addition to these regular concerts, Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (January (chef d’attaque) Pestereva TATIANA oboe Akoulina VARLAMOVA harp the Royal Symphony Orchestra 2011), Swan Lake (January 2012) and The Redouane CHEBLI 2nd violin Adil LOISSAME clarinet Yury GLUZBERG piano Ghizlane GOUNDAL 2nd violin Mohammed ECH-CHARFI bassoon regularly participates in the Mawazine Sleeping Beauty (January 2013) as well Sara ECH-CHARFI 2nd violin Mohammed ZIANI trumpet Festival and won the consideration of as the ballet Coppélia by Léo Délibes viola (January 2014), Don Quixote by Léon Younes ALLALI the stars it has accompanied such as (chef d’attaque) Minkus (January 2015) and La traviata by Sting, Roger Hodgson, Nigel Kennedy or Jawad TAIRA viola Giuseppe Verdi (January 2016). George Benson. Aicha AGHANIM viola 6 The Mediterranean Concert Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva 7 director, composer, producer Islands with jazz, taking part in the MARIA TONI and bassist born in Sabadell Horacio Icasto trio and participating DEL MAR CUENCA A (Barcelona), he has lived for 17 in different chamber ensembles such BONET MUSICAL years on the island of Mallorca. He began as the Mallorca Island Orchestra, the SPAIN DIRECTOR his guitar studies in his home town at Youth Orchestra of the Balearic Islands & ORCHESTRAL age 8 and at 15 entered a Barcelona and the Euro Classic Orchestra. DIRECTOR classroom to study jazz electric bass. He studied guitar at the Conservatory In his long career he has played and orn in Palma de Mallorca, when young she moved to of Sabadell, double bass at the recorded works with leading jazz and Barcelona, where she started a musical career that Conservatory of Palma de Mallorca and flamenco figures such as Paco de Lucia, would take her to travel the European continent, orchestration and composition with Concha Buika, Peter Erskine, Alex B North Africa, the United States, Cuba, South America and Professor Tito Capblanquet at Berklee Acuna, Gary Willis, Chano Dominguez Japan. Among her most emblematic concerts, the highlights College. and Jorge Pardo. He has produced and are the Olympia Theatre in Paris, festivals in Athens, Istanbul worked with renowned artists such and Edinburgh and especially those staged every summer in On his arrival in Mallorca he met Tete as Miguel Rios, Santiago Auserón, the Plaza del Rey in Barcelona, which for years have attracted Montoliu, Max Suñer, Carles Benavent Ismael Serrano, Raimundo Amador, a large audience. Cultures, peoples, music, languages and and Salvador Niebla, with whom he Javier Vargas, Kiko Veneno, Horacio history of the Mediterranean have always been the benchmark had the opportunity to share a stage, Icasto, Antonio Vega, Maria del Mar Photo: Juan Miguel Morales and inspiration for her personal and artistic life, leading her to record more than forty albums and to being considered one of He has received numerous awards for his artistic the best Mediterranean voices by many. work, having been recognised by the Spanish Academy of Music and the Cuba Disco Festival. also as part of the Dave Schnitter Jazz Bonet, Dave Stewart, Molly Duncan MARIA Messengers band. He began his career and Tomatito and has written and FARANTOURI by studying bass with Professor Yana composed various symphonic works for GREECE Alexieva at the Palma Conservatory. the Orchestra of the Balearic islands, At the same time he was alternating the Madrid Symphonic Band and the classes with David Heyes of the London Vallés Symphony Orchestra. Bass School. aria Farantouri is well quality, combined with a fine instinct for As a conductor he has led the known all over the world dramatic and lyrical expression, are the IIn 1996 he moved to London to join Presidential Symphony Orchestra of as the ideal interpreter of main features of her art. The Guardian saxophonist Malcolm Duncan of Dire Turkey, the Symphony Orchestra of M the works of Mikis Theodorakis and wrote: “She is unique, her voice is a gift Straits fame. With him he launched Istanbul, the Symphony Orchestra Manos Hadzithakis. She has played an from the Gods of Olympus”. Le Monde the Acid Jazz album, reaching Nr. 1 on of Sofia, the Symphony Orchestra of important role in the movement for the described her as “The Joan Baez of the the charts in Japan, from where they Girona, the Vallès Symphony Orchestra, revival of Greek music. Her rich contralto Mediterranean” and The Daily Telegraph began their international tour. At that the Film Chamber Orchestra and the voice with its broad range and melodic as “The Maria Callas of the people”. time, he combined his residency at the Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands. 8 The Mediterranean Concert Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva Foto: Falkonis 9 TANIA ARA HANI KASSIS MALIKIAN LEBANON MITWASI LEBANON JORDAN warded the Lebanese Accomplishment Medal, Tania ani Mitwasi is a top Jordanian star and an International artist.