Kiya Tabassian ©Maryvonne Plas

Improvisation & Memory

Final Workshop Concert

The event is in the past!

Across continents and millennia, the improvisation of music and its oral reproduction from memory was the norm; composing and notation, on the other hand, the exception. Kiya Tabassian is familiar with both: the native Iranian emigrated to Canada with his family and studied not only the setar, a Persian long-necked lute, but also composition. In the projects of the Ensemble Constantinople, which he leads (»... cette ville étrange«, May 1, 6 pm, WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz), medieval and contemporary, Western and Middle Eastern sounds, African griot and American klezmer music meet and merge. Today, many traditions originating outside of Europe enrich our musical life, mingling and inspiring one another. What can students of jazz and new music from Cologne learn from Tabassian’s trans-traditional approach to music? That is the question they explore in an improvisation workshop; the results can be heard in their joint lunch concert.


​ACHT BRÜCKEN Lunch wird ermöglicht durch Otto Fuchs Schüco.




Promoter
Acht Brücken in Kooperation mit der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

In addition

… cette ville étrange (01.05.2022)
18:00 Uhr, Großer Sendesaal des WDR

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