An Arabic-Baltic Spring - AFAC Brings Arab Composers to Perform With the Grammy Award Winning Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra - May 3rd & May 4th at the Esterh?zy Palace, Eisenstadt, Austria

An Arabic-Baltic Spring - AFAC Brings Arab Composers to Perform With the Grammy Award Winning Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra - May 3rd & May 4th at the Esterházy Palace, Eisenstadt, Austria

TALLINN, Estonia, April 30, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), in collaboration with the Kremerata Baltica
chamber orchestra and the Esterhazy Foundation, is offering a unique Arabic-Baltic
contemporary classical music concert in an "unlikely partnership" that brings together
distant communities and promises to be an enriching experience.



In AFAC's efforts to promote Arab artists and to give visibility for talent from the
Arab world, to facilitate cross-cultural exchange and create room for creative
experimentation, two concerts will be performed in collaboration with the award-winning
Baltic chamber orchestra, the Kremerata Baltica, and its founder, renowned violinist
Maestro Gidon Kremer. Known as "the greatest violinist alive today", Maestro Gidon
Kremer's enthusiasm to explore with AFAC the possibilities of a collaboration with
musicians and composers from the Arab region has gone a long way in bringing this project
from idea to reality. The Esterhazy Foundation has been an exciting catalyst for the
making of this concert at its palatial music hall, the Haydnsaal, named after the
prominent classical composer Joseph Haydn and designed for excellent acoustics.



Taking place on May 3rd and 4th 2012, this Arabic-Baltic spring concert will include
classical and contemporary compositions from the Arab and Baltic regions including musical
works by Armenian, Estonian, Egyptian, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lebanese, Sudanese and
Syrian composers. Nine musicians and composers from the Arab world will be represented:
MAias Alyamani, Fadia El-Hage, Zaid Jabri, Zakar Keshishian, Joelle Khoury, Ali Osman,
Mustafa Said, Mohammad Taha and Mahmoud Turkmani.



On the sidelines of this cross-cultural concert, a panel will be held at the
University of Music in Vienna on the evening of May 2nd for an informal discussion about
contemporary music and the challenges it faces. Touching on questions of identity,
globalism and alienation, the title of the panel is "Contemporary Music: Between Heritage,
Individualism and Dialogue - An Arab Perspective." The panel will be open to the public.




Martynas Grigas
martynas@bkm.ee
+37067440315





Source: Kremerata Baltica




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