In this workshop, Ramy Maalouf will share some of his creative innovations in flute technique and expression, enabling flute players to enrich their playing with a range of new skills. Among the extended techniques introduced …
These two intensive workshops led by Ant Romero will guide your percussion playing within musical traditions ranging from Middle Eastern and Mediterranean to Latin American. Participants will be introduced to the rudiments for building phrases …
This course, led by Yasamin Shahhosseini, will give participants an opportunity to work in a focused way on a genre unique to Iranian classical music. Literally, ‘chaharmezrab’ means ‘four plectrum strikes’, and it originally referred …
In this workshop, led by Negar Bouban, you will encounter ideas and sounds that are integral to traditions of the Middle East, but that have been lost in many regions (and to many ears) through …
Shirley Smart is recognised as one of the UK’s most versatile and creative cellists – being equally at home and well versed in jazz and Middle Eastern music, as well as classical music. Originally trained …
Flutist, composer and interdisciplinary artist, Aura Rascón has been the first musician of Mexican origin to specialize professionally in the Bansuri (the bamboo flute of India). Nowadays, with a trajectory of more than 15 years …
Negar Bouban, Iranian musician, oud player, composer and musicologist, was born in 1973, Tehran. She got her Master’s of Architecture from the faculty of fine arts -University of Tehran, after designing for Tehran’s music conservatory, …
Antonio Romero is a Spanish percussionist who has developed a deep understanding in, and mastery of percussion. He was co-founder and drummer of one of the most influential groups to appear on the Spanish pop-rock …
Ramy Maalouf is a Lebanese flute player and composer. He holds a baccalaureate from the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music, a BA in musicology from University Saint Esprit Kaslik (USEK) and a graduate diploma …
Rachel Beckles Willson is the founder of Music Boat. She is a multi-instrumentalist, researcher and composer, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. Two recent and ongoing projects are Today is Good!, a song-writing project …
