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	Call for musicians and organisations
	POSTED BY: Cremm Network --- September 28th 2009
	CREMM is proud to announce a call for musicians to apply for their participation on the third edition of the EuroMed Music Festival and call for organisations to build an international database of the Euro-Mediterranean area including organizations working on cross border creation programs with professional musicians. More information enclosed. Further notes: - we acc Read more »

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Samir Fejzic, composer and pianist, born in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), studied composition at Music Academy in Sarajevo, where he graduated in 1998. Currently he teaches renaissance and baroque counterpoint at Secondary Music School in Sarajevo. His work is characterized by different influences, variety of styles and the constant try of assimilation of classical vocal styles, traditional folk music and contemporary techniques into his compositions under the personal perspective. His interest for vocal music resulted in writing of a book Vokalni kontrapunkt, which he finished in September 2003. and was published by Svjetlost in Sarajevo. He is also co-author of the book Bosnian Songs for Voice and Piano. Simultaneously with composing and lecturing Samir performs as a jazz pianist and till the moment he recorded couple of TV shows (“Jazz in action” for Bosnia and Herzegovina TV), three CDs, he would accentuate the album Vintage, performed with Swedish singer Karolina Ollinen. Remarkable part of his energy is focused on preserving traditional Bosnian musical inheritance: he arranged and stylized numerous amount of traditional Bosnian tunes. For his work he got recognition of wide audience at home and abroad and received several awards, the most important Charter, in 2001, attributed by Association of Music Educators Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina for his arrangements in the project Bosnian songs for voice and piano.
In 2008 he founds "Samir Fejzic band”, with whom, in year 2009th, published a new album called "Bosnian Songs For Voice And Trio” (traditional Bosnian songs called sevdalinka, stylized in the manner of jazz and modern classics). Currently performs at events such as the Sarajevo Film Festival, Novogradski dani, the International Festival Sarajevo Winter etc.

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Multi-percussion player and drummer Renzo Spiteri is a sought-after independent musician distinguished by his ability of adapting to a wide range of musical styles - jazz to classical, from solo percussion performances to fusion, contemporary, folk and world music. With a professional music career spanning more than 25 years, he has established himself as a leading percussionist, creative artiste and session musician renowned for staging outstanding live performances in concert halls, theatre productions as well as art exhibitions.

Based in Malta (Europe), Renzo’s concert schedules have taken him on a beautiful musical journey across the globe, from Greenwich Village (New York City) to South Korea. He has performed in major festivals (WOMAD, Festival of the Desert, Musica Viva, PASIC) and theatres, and has worked alongside exceptional musicians to the likes of Trilok Gurtu, N’faly Kouyate (Afrocelt Sound System), Guo Yue, Mercan Dede and Mousse Ndaiye (Youssou n’Dour). Through his ongoing World Music Projects, Renzo regularly engages musicians from various ethnic communities to collaborate and create unique musical dialogues. These cross-cultural exchanges and concerts have consistently mesmerised and intrigued audiences, and in 2008 Renzo was appointed Ambassador for the European Union’s campaign “Year for Intercultural Dialogue”.

His creative and inventive approach to challenging projects has earned him high-profile assignments from local entities, foreign diplomatic bodies and international arts councils. He has scored music for the visitors’ audio guide of Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), performed the contemporary “Sounds Unlimited” during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2005 (presented by The National Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The British Council), presented installation performance “Re:Public” as closing event celebrating Cork (Ireland) as European Cultural Capital, and “Sketches from Home” performed during the Festival of Cultures in Viareggio (Italy) (by invitation of the Italian Ministry of Culture). Locally, Renzo leads his own Latin Jazz Quintet and works very closely with the contemporary Contact Dance Company (Malta), writing music and performing live on stage with the company in Malta and across Europe. He was also featured on a national level in adverts and campaigns to help raise awareness about social issues (Fairtrade, Iniziamed, Inspire – Foundation for Inclusion) and environmental themes (commissioned by the Ministry for the Environment, Malta).

As an educator, Renzo has collaborated with the music departments at Queen’s University (Belfast), University of Iowa (USA) and China Conservatory of Music (Beijing). His residency/research period at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in Belfast (N. Ireland) highlighted his enthusiasm for more contemporary and experimental presentations of percussive music, merging the resonance of “found objects” and more conventional percussion instruments with live-electronic manipulation.

His solo album entitled “This is my language” (2005) is a collection of “sketches” using traditional as well as unconventional percussive instruments, and is described by the artiste as “a personal statement, an inner voyage … like an abstract painting, there to be perceived by every individual”.
Renzo is an internationally endorsed artiste for world leading companies Toca Percussion, Paiste Cymbals and Gibraltar Hardware, and is supported by Yamaha Drums and Olimpus Music (Malta). www.renzospiteri.com

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Recorder, violin, alto and dulcimer player in well known moravian world music group Tomáš Kočko & ORCHESTR . We played in Ireland, FR, UK, Estonia, Poland, Hungary etc.
We were awarded by ANDĚL ALLIANZ 2006 (Czech „Grammy“), in category "world music", thanks our last CD POPLOR. This CD also was for two months in TOP 20 of Europian World Music Charts!
Singer of jazz-alternative group Onen svět performing in local clubs.
Recorder player in distinguished Barogue ensemble Belladonna Trio

I cooperated with world music groups like Čankišou, Družina, Makám etc.
I participated in many international festivals. I consider as my best workshop experience attending Le village européen des nouvelles musiques traditionnelles in Correns, south France in 2005, where musicians from whole Europe cooperated in common concert project.
I am certificated music therapist partly working for team building agencies as consultant in communication skills and auto realxing techniques. I am used to work with smaller groups of people as leader as well as a participant and work with music, improvise and find new ways, how music can affect.

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Band Orient

Ancient & Modern, East & West, World Music, Jazz & Blues, all these combine in this dynamic ethno-jazz recording featuring the exotic sounds of the ancient oud and the ultra modern EWI - Electronic Wind Instrument.
From the Orient to the Blues blends the ageless sounds of the oud with the drive of the EWI - electronic wind instrument. In the hands of four celebrated virtuoso musicians, the result is truly exhil

ELISEO PARRA will record a new live CD and DVD

Certainly, Eliseo Parra has consolidated as the Spanish artist with more international projection, showing the variety and richness of our traditional Spanish music.
Eliseo Parra and their band bring us with more force and vitality (outcome of several years without pause on the stage) a new live broadcast… fresh, vital and contagious, with new themes and fusions that will surprise us even more than what we are used to.
In 2008 Eliseo Parra will record a new live cd and dvd to celebrate 10 years of his musical career and famous work “Tribus Urbanas”

JOSE ANTONIO RAMOS "VERY JAR"

Jose Antonio Ramos is a Canaries artist who has introduced the art of the “timple” to a completely unedited acoustic spectrum. His experiences in a variety of genres (jazz, flamenco, Celtic, symphonic…) have brought admiration to all those who listened to his work and new proposals. This new album reverts back to the more genuine and innovating José Antonio Ramos. Drawing from cultures but also turning his music to more contemporary sounds. This way we can have the opportunity to listen to more traditional and acoustic sounds of the “timple” but also for the first time in the history of music, more experimental sounds of the MIDI “timple” or “timple” synthesiser, creating Ramos’ own initiative.

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Comando Macondo: an exotic dish with appetising ingredients

This is an atypical musical proposal that combines different genres of Brazilian music with Latin sounds, (pop and electronic) thereby COMANDO MACONDO claiming the Latin American imagination.Their music can be delicate and intimate, while being pulsating and dynamic, with the warm and sensual voice of Spanish Markos Bayón, and sweet and evocative singing of the Brazilian Glaucia Mendes.In their concerts, the music i

The Dervishes of Cairo: a gift of a Nile

The group “the Dervishes of Cairo” was born in the year 2001, with the purpose of safeguarding and to diffusing the Egyptian traditional and popular music and, especially, the sufie dances. Their force and their prodigious concentration capacity in the dance, as well as the music's brilliant interpretation and the trance rhythms that at great speed produce vertigo and happiness in the public have converted them, in little time, in one of the groups of more projection inside and out of their country.
The “Derviches of Cairo” present to us a dynamic show, colouring of an impressive master with marked difference to the sufie Turkish dances. The team participates in various festivals and events, national and international, the intercultural festivals of the community of Madrid 2005 the first edition of folkloric festival of EL Cairo 2006 and won golden pyramid prize. They participated in the final ceremony of the Olympic games in Asia in Qatar 2006, and ultimately of Hurgada in the Red Sea, in January 2007.
Today they act daily in the stages of Egypt presenting their art to the Egyptians and tourists who visit there from the four corners of the world.

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EuroMed Music Festival II. 2009.

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by Dubi Lenz

Music is the common language to all the citizens of the "Blue Ball" – our global village. Music is an international language helping building bridges among traditions, countries, cultures, rhythms and genres – music doesn't recognize boundaries and fences. Music connects people.

This is the idea standing behind an outstanding musical meeting in Budapest – Hungary – EuroM

EuroMed Music Festival, 2007

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The end-of-summer festival organized by the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism took place at the open terrace of the Gödör club, supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation and in accordance with their aims. (www.euromedalex.org).

During the 3-day festival, taking place on August 23-25, 2007, a series of 9 concerts were staged with the participation of 27 musicians from Hungary, and 18 musicians from Jordan, Israel, Italy and Poland. For a few days before the concerts the musicians took part in workshops organized at different locations. At these workshops Arabic and European music was thematized in the following 4 groups: Jewish-Arabic Music, Women in Music, Gipsy Music and Jazz Fusion. The musicians formed four groups, one corresponding to each theme, and were supported to create and perform a joint performance. The joint performances aim at furthering the appreciation of equality of cultural diversities and the mutual enrichment of the modern musical styles of both Europe and its Mediterranean neighbours.

Participating artists: In addition to the young Italian, Polish, Jordanian musicians, artists, who have mediated parts of the Jewish and Arabic cultures, or the entwining of these cultures in several parts of the world, were also present at this event. Just to mention the possibly most characteristic figures of the Festival: among our guests were Shlomo Bar, who is of Moroccan-Jewish origin, Yair Dalal, who has been nominated for the World Music Prize of the BBC, but we could also mention Hani Naser, the many-sided percussionist and lute player originating from Jordan, who has played with world famous artists such as Santana, Jackson Brown, Ry Cooder, Hamza El Din, Paco De Lucia, or Lou Reed. Among the Hungarian musicians were such well known and outstanding artists as Mónika Mitzura, Mihály Borbély, Frenkie Látó, David Yengibarjan, or Said Tichiti.

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This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the Anna Lindh Foundation.

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