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Ayman Mabrouk was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1983. Right in the deepness of the Arabic culture, He grew up listening and exploring many different Oriental music styles such as Egyptian, Turkish, Caucasian, North African, Azerbaijani and Gulf Arabian, which formed the basis of his musical work today. He began to work professionally as a percussionist with some of the most respected bands of the Traditional Oriental Music scene like “Alexandria Opera House Band” and he soon established himself as a sought-after musician, well known for his authentic grasp of Arabic, Jazz, Flamenco, African and Latin American Music. A few years later he has been featured on many television shows as well as at Jazz and World Music festivals in Egypt, Malta, Lebanon, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, United States of America, Germany, Jordan, Italy, Tunisia, Palestine and England. Mastering a large variety of percussion instruments such as Darbuka, Riq, Dohola, Frame Drums, Cajon, Djembe, Congas, Azerbaijani Naghara, Bongos and many others, he mixes those different cultural percussion instruments with some western ones like the Snare Drum, Hi-Hat, Cymbals and other soft percussions for making a wonderful fusion of sound between all different cultures and identities, his musical influences today are derived from a combination of Traditional Arabic and North African rhythms, Gulf Arabian, Flamenco, Latin American styles, Blues, Rock and jazz. Ayman Mabrouk has been appearing and sharing the stage with several famous artists like the “Grammy & BBC award winner” Fathy Salama and his band “Sharkiat” and the “Emmy award winner” German Pianist Matthias Frey and German Saxophonist Büdi Siebert and the “JPF U.S.A award winner” Spanish Guitarist Fernando Perez and famous French Rock singer Rodolphe Burger and the Choir of the German radio WDR conducted by the Austrian composer Rupert Huber and the Italian Classical Music Quartet Xenis Ensemble . Also he has been performing with many respected artists like the winner of the best Oud player in the world 2002 & 2004 “Hazem Shaheen”, world famous Qanoun player “Hossam Shaker”, well-known Egyptian German Oud player “Basem Darwisch”, famous Guitar and Oud player the German composer “Roman Bunka”, member of International Orchestra of Ney the Ney player “Mohamed Antar” and the Syrian Clarinet player “Kinan Azmeh”. Besides he had made many workshops with different artists like Lebanese saxophonist “Toufic Farroukh” and Lebanese Oud player and composer “Charbel Rouhana” and the German Electronic Music composer “Tomath Brinkman” and many other international workshops in Egypt, Poland, Serbia, and Hungary. Moreover this he’s a member in many independent bands such as Massar Egbari band, Station band, Donia Massoud band, Dina El-Wedidi band, Maryam Saleh band, Oriental Secrets Ensemble, Fernando Perez & Ayman Mabrouk Duo and Khyam Allami & Ayman Mabrouk Duo.
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Misirli Ahmet (Ahmet Yildirim) is a Turkish virtuoso darbuka player. His music spans various genres and carries influences from Indian, Arabic, Latin American and Jazz music.

Ahmet Yildirimstarted his music life playing a Turkish-style darbuka. He states that he was a fairly ordinary player before his travel to Egypt, to play with and learn from some of the best darbuka players; most of all "to find the meaning of his existence" and "to discover the rhythm". Yıldırım lived in the desert-bound valley of Cairo, during which he developed his unique technique, now known as the split-finger technique, which allows for very quick playing.

Yıldırım came to be known as "Mısırlı Ahmet" (Ahmet of Egypt) after his journey. He is called "Ahmed el Turkî" (Turkish Ahmet) in Egypt.

He accompanied a lot of musicians and bands all through 1990s most of which were the biggest stars in their genre. Just as 90s were folding he was back in Egypt again, this time taking the road to the Sinai desert where he concentrated on the deholla which is the bigger size ceramic darbuka. It was the time when his interest in jazz, Indian fusion and world music peaked. 

Working with some masterful Spanish, Jewish and Turkish jazz/world music musicians of the day, the fruits of his work in this period appeared on two seminal albums, “Mel De Cabra” (2000) and “The Search” (2001), The Search also eventually becoming the name of his jazz-ethnic fusion band. His work as the top darbuka session musician around was going on in the first years of the new millenium but in the meanwhile his restless passion for exploration of new new sounds, enriching his technique on deholla (and surely on all forms of darbuka), perfecting his sense of rhythm harmony and find original beats on darbuka along with brand new interpretations of traditional ones. He performed many solo and band concerts all over Turkey, Europe and many other places of the world. 

With the dream of revealing the musical and folkloric richness of Anatolia, Balkans and the Mediterranean as well as the rhythmic abundance and integrating the culture of East and West in the magical realm of rhythm; he founded Galata Rhythm Academy and Istanbul Rhythm Foundation in 2007. Academy and Foundation provides training and workshops, organize musical and cultural events, and an annual rhythm and art retreat bringing together music, dance, theater, visual arts, and various other art forms. Currently, the Academy is building an art village in Southern Turkey as a meeting point of professional and nonprofessional artists, students and public with trainings, camps, concerts, festivals and other events. 

“If science is figuring out the secrets of the universe, then rhythm is the way to figure out the secrets of life.” 

 

More information may be found at: http://www.myspace.com/ahmetmisirli

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Pianiste compositeur, Geoffroy Colson a étudié le piano et l’orgue classique avant de découvrir le jazz et les musiques improvisées. Pratiquant également le saxophone en autodidacte, il a ensuite suivi les cursus professionnels de l’IACP (Paris) et de la NAMM (Milan) tout en travaillant avec Katy Roberts. Il est également titulaire d’une Licence de Musicologie.

Sa démarche artistique est depuis longtemps caractérisée par une recherche personnelle sur le métissage des musiques (il a notamment autoproduit en 2001 un CD de compositions originalesbaséessurlejazzetles musiques d’Amérique Latine), par le désir d’abolir les frontières stylistiques, et par la surprise,sans cesse renouvelée, créée par l’improvisation. Ses pérégrinations musicales l'ont conduit en 20 ans du Languedoc à la région PACA en passant par la Bretagne, l'Ile-de-France, l'Italie et la Polynésie Française, où à chaque fois il a pu développer et enrichir son jeu grâce de fructueuses rencontres musicales. Il a eu l’occasion de se produire dans des styles aussi variés que le jazz, le classique, la variété, la chanson à texte, le rock, le reggae.

Il développe actuellement deux projets musicaux :

« Pacific Vibrations », un projet international réunissant des musiciens d'origines très diverses autour de compositions originales d'influence jazz et intégrant les traditions musicales du Pacifique (Australie, Mélanésie, Polynésie...).

« Prana », un quintet de jazz contemporain dans l'esprit de McCoy Tyner, Jacky Terrasson, John Abercrombie.

Depuis 1995 il enseigne également le piano, la formation musicale, l’harmonie et l’arrangement, et dirige des ateliers de pratique collective. Il a créé dans ce but Aremiti Musiques en 2004, entreprise de services autour de la musique, ainsi que les Ateliers Musique de l’Argens, espace de pratique collective autour du Jazz et des Musiques Actuelles.
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www.bojananikolic.rs

Bojana Nikolic biography:

Bojana Nikolic, born in 1984, finished her Master’s Degree at the Ethnomusicology Department of the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade. She graduated from the Department of Serbian traditional singing and playing in the Secondary Music School "Mokranjac'' in Belgrade. She is actively engaged in field researching and studies of vocal techniques from the whole of the Balkans regions, especially the Serbian and Bulgarian styles. Participate in symposiums and workshops in which she is presenting Serbian traditional singing styles from the entire territory of the former Yugoslav republics.

From her fourteen ears as a professional engaged in singing, she performed over 250 concerts at home and abroad (America, Canada, Mexico, Luxemburg, Belgium, Netherland, France, Hungary, China, India, Italy etc), and collaborated with numerous musicians and world music ensembles, such as: ''Sanja Ilic & Balkanika'' (Serbia), Teodosi Spassov (Bulgaria), Palya Bea (Hungary), ''Hazari'' (Serbia) etc.

She is founded her own world music group in december 2008, with which she perform the music of the Balkans.

In 2010 she became a part of new international group ''Taram'' with: Tuur Florizoon (Belgium), Mohammed Antar (Egypt), Bogusz Wekka (Poland), Mihaly Gyorgy (Hungary) and Oriol Gonzales (Spain).

Also in 2010. Bojana Nikolic founded Agency ''Balkan Culture Heritage'', to promote and preservate oral tradition.

In 2011. she founded ''The School of Serbian and Balkan traditional singing by Bojana Nikolic'' – first in the Balkan area.

About her world music group:

Bojana Nikolic with her group performs Serbian and the Balkans traditional folk and old city songs. She performs songs from all areas of Serbia - Vojvodina, Sumadija, Kosovo and Metohija, Western and Eastern Serbia as well as the songs from the Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece and Romania.

The members of the group are students and undergraduates of the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade who are in this kind of music professionally for a long time. ''We perform our songs in different arrangements which do not disrupt the basic melody of songs and kolo dances. By the combination of voice, wind instruments (the frula, the bagpipes, the kaval, and the clarinet), the guitar, percussion instruments (the tarabuka, the bendir, the daire, the suske) and the string orchestra we give new freshness to the songs and make their sounds closer to present time''.
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Renzo Spiteri is a highly respected independent musician with a distinct artistic sensitivity and ability of adapting to a wide range of musical styles – classical to experimental, from solo percussion performances to improvisations, contemporary, jazz and world music. A music graduate with a performance career spanning more than 25 years, Renzo has given more than 1000 concerts and live performances across the globe, as well as having appeared and performed on numerous radio and television broadcasts. He aptly merges academic and classical music endeavors with creative artistic expression to stage outstanding live performances that range from the sublime to the passionate.

Based in the European island nation of Malta, 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 performs in major festivals (WOMAD, Festival of the Desert, Musica Viva, PASIC) and venues (Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington DC), National Concert Hall (Dublin), Babylon Club (Istanbul), Ludwig Forum (Aachen)), and works as multi-percussionist and drummer alongside exceptional musicians to the likes of Trilok Gurtu, N’faly Kouyate (Afrocelt Sound System), Guo Yue, Mercan Dede, Idan Raichel and Michael Alcorn (SARC). Using the universality of music as common ground, he engages musicians from various musical and cultural backgrounds to collaborate and create unique transcultural musical dialogues. In 2008 Renzo was appointed Ambassador for the European Union’s campaign “Year for Intercultural Dialogue” and performed “Sketches from Home” during the Festival of Cultures in Viareggio (Italy) (by invitation of the Italian Ministry of Culture).

Renzo’s concern with the use of sound, its sculptural design and the influence it exerts within the various genres of artistic expression has allowed him to merge his role of musician with that of composer, musical director and producer, acting as a strong linking point between the music itself and the art form - be it a film, dance choreography, theatre production, literature recital or visual installation. He has scored and recorded music for the visitors’ audio guide of Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), performed “Sounds Unlimited: Contemporary Soundscapes in One Act” on occasion of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2005 (presented by The National Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The British Council), and presented installation performance “Re: Public” to celebrate Cork (Ireland) as European Cultural Capital.

As an educator, Renzo has given masterclasses and collaborated with the music departments at Queen’s University (Belfast), University of Iowa (USA) and China Conservatory of Music (Beijing). He often combines unconventional performance and recording techniques using traditional and invented instruments with current technological advances to develop fresh musical possibilities and modes of expression. The resultant effect is stunning and engaging and bears Renzo’s unique dynamic sonic signature. This enthusiasm for experimental presentations of percussive music was highlighted during his residency/research period at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in Belfast (N. Ireland) where he merged the resonance of “found objects” and more conventional instruments with live-electronic manipulation.

Renzo has produced and released two albums with his works: “INKONTRI” (2010), also featuring Joe Friggieri that merges Friggieri’s poetry with contemporary music composed and performed by Renzo; and, “THIS IS MY LANGUAGE” (2005), a solo album with Renzo’s own original works for percussion described by him as “a personal statement, an inner voyage into the beauty and abstract forms of music as a means of expression”.

Renzo is an endorsed artiste for Toca Percussion, Paiste Cymbals, Yamaha Drums and Gibraltar Hardware, and is supported by Olimpus Music (Malta). Further information about Renzo and his work is available at: www.renzospiteri.com
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Born in Milano (Italy), MA in Ethnomusicology at the University Of Bologna. Since 2005 he has been living in Greece, where in 2007 he obtained the degree in traditional percussions at the F. Nakas Conservatory of Athens, with Petros Kourtis. In Italy he had been studying classical percussions for 3 years, jazz drums for 6 years, and had started to study Italian and Mediterranean traditional percussions on his own. In 2006 he attended a masterclass with Misirli Ahmet. In 2010 he attended a workshop with traditional Italian percussionist Raffaele Inserra.

He founded in Italy the “ethno-jazz-rock” band “Juba Lane”, which in 1999 won the Italian National Jazz Contest “Fiesole Jazz”, with Stefano Bollani in the Jury. He also founded the trio “Le Bal Masqué” and the “Marsa Project” quartet, playing modern arrangements of Italian and European traditional tunes. With these bands, where he was active also as arranger andcomposer, and with other bands with which he used to perform (“Radio Dervish”, “Il Paese delle Mille Danze”, “Shlomot”, “Gnawa from Casablanca” – Morocco, “Touareg from the Ahaggar” – Algery, and various other), he performed in concerts and festivals in Italy, Bosnia, France, Palestine, Greece, Malta, Spain, Albania, Serbia, Romania, Bulgary, Cyprus, Croatia, Poland, Switzerland.

He performed in the Italian tour of the musical “Gianburrasca”, with Marco Morandi, with music by Nino Rota, and took part in many studio recordings in Italy, Malta, Bosnia, and Greece.

In Italy, besides private lessons, he used to teach drums in a Music School for three years, and he was active in seminars and workshops on percussions in Music, Primary and Secondary schools. He served as artistic director of the Italian Traditional Music Festival "Le Vie della Musica" for three years.

He wrote and directed three theatre performances, based on improvisation and on the meeting of different artistic languages, with musicians, dancers, actors and street artists, which were presented in Italy and abroad.
In Greece he used to perform with Petros Kourtis, in his percussion team “Drumvoice” as well as in other projects. He is member of the percussion band “Echodrasi”, directed by Nikos Touliatos, with whom he also has a free improvisation duo-project. In 2010 they released their first recording(All'improvviso – On Impulse), and started experimenting collaborations with other musicians. He collaborates with composer Nikos Mamangakis. He runs with Armando Illario several projects around Southern Italian traditional music, with which he is active in workshops and concerts.He gives seminars and private lessons in percussions.
He started dealing with body percussion in 2008, and attended classes with Max Pollak, Thanos Daskalopoulos and the “Stomp” members Leela Petronio and Simone Clarke. With Thanos Daskalopoulos he has founded in 2009 the body percussion project “Kantu Korpu”.

In Greece he performed with several bands, playing rock, reggae, Greek and Italian traditional music. He collaborated with the “Lykio Ellinidon” and played with renowned musicians and singers of the jazz, modern and folk scene, such as David Lynch, Giorgos Kotsinis, Grigoris Kapsalis, Maria Farantouri, Zaharias Karounis, Yiota Nega, Giorgos Kontogiannis, Vasilis Lekkas, Eleni and Souzana Vougioukli, MariosPapadeas

He played percussions in the theatre play “The Dead Brother”, directed by Sotiris Hatzakis, with performances in Greece andabroad.

Since 2009 he has been teaming up with VivaBiancaluna Biffiand Armando Illario in a trio project about medieval and Renaissance music, already presented in some European festivals.


Fiesole, 8 luglio 1999.

"We certify that the band Juba Lane […] is the winner of the first edition of the Fiesole Jazz contest for its capability to blend different languages in a creative and active way. Our jury appreciated in particular the research on timbre and the good instrumental technique, and believes that the music project that has been shown has further development possibilities."

The Jury: Stefano Bollani, Andrea Cavallari, Luigi Onori.


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Tahirovic Irfan , born on 07/02/1983 in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a musician and a composer who entered the music world at the time of the war in Bosnia, during which he was a refugee in several countries (Former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Turkey, Sweden and Germany).


He mainly plays percussion instruments (Darbuka, Djembe, Congas, Bongos, Repenique, Caicha, Surdo, Cajon and Udu) and combines them at the same time.

His professional music career started in Munich with the band Trilogie der Lust“
After his return to Sarajevo in 2006 he joined the “Sarajevo Drum Orchestra“ (
www.sdo.ba) with which he played, until May 2007, Samba, African, Latino-American and Oriental rhythms.
In May 2007 he joined the cover band “Lana & Exhale“ (www.lanahamza.com) and performed with them in Sarajevo's and Bosnia's most popular clubs turning some world hits into Afro-Cuban, reggae or Latino-house rhythms.
At the same time he started to study the Balkan music and devoted himself in understanding and feeling the music he was playing. He attended many workshops in Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and had the honour to play and create music with remarkable musicians such as:
Izzet Kizil (percussion, Turkey), Giovani Falzone (trumpet, Italy), Francesco Berzatti (saxophone, Italy), Toni Kitanovski (guitar, Macedonia)

Soon after, he started to play with one of the most popular folk-singers in the Former Yugoslavia, Halid Beslic. After the 2009/10 winter tour with Halid Beslic (Zenica 10.000 people, Zagreb - 2 nights in a row - 50.000 people, Banja Luka 7.000 and Karlovac 6.000) he was called as a guest percussionist by one of the greatest Pop-Rock bands in the Former Yugoslavia, “Crvena Jabuka“ and played with them in Sarajevo's Olympic Hall “Zetra“ in front of 20.000 people.


At the moment he is recording an album "dert" with his Sevdah band “Divanhana“ and works with his Irfan Tahirovic Trio (www.irfantahirovictrio.com.ba) that was founded in November 2009.
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