Cairo Jazz Station - session de formation Medinea

Cairo Jazz Station
At the crossroads between jazz and contemporary Middle Eastern music
An educational and artistic collaboration
between the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Makan Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts
with the support of the Institut Français in Cairo
Meeting up in Cairo to search for a new, common musical identity.
Such is the aim of this group of young artists from the world of oral and improvised music in Europe and the Middle East. A unique new blend of timbres, born of the need to bridge the distance between the shores and sonic worlds of a rapidly changing area.
MUSICIANS
Abdallah Abozekry, saz (Egypt)
Ismail Altunbas, percussions (Turkey)
João Barradas, accordion (Portugal)
Loris Lari, double basse (Italy)
RESIDENCIES
CAIRO (Egypt) • Makan Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts, 29 March-6 April 2016
AIX-EN-PROVENCE • Festival d'Aix, 13-19 July 2016
LISBON (Portugal) • Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation, 24-29 June 2017
TOURING DATES
CAIRO (Egypt) • Makan Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts, 5 April 2016
AIX-EN-PROVENCE • Hôtel Maynier d'Oppède, 19 July 2016
NUORO, Sardinia (Italy) • Festival Nuoro Jazz, 25 August 2016
CONSTANTINE (Algeria) • Festival DimaJazz, 20 November 2016
HEIDELBERG (Germany) • Kongresshaus Stadthalle, 21 April 2017
in the framework of the festival Heidelberger Frühling
LISBON (Portugal) • Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation, 29 June 2017
in the framework of the festival Jardim de Verão
AIX-EN-PROVENCE • Darius Milhaud Conservatoire, 16 July 2017