The centerpiece of Festival 2005 is a specially
commissioned world premiere work called NOWRUZ PROJECT, which will
premiere on October 2 as an international music experiment and artistic
statement for global peace. This evening will present traditional and newly
composed music, poetry, and film, featuring Azerbaijani pianist Chingiz
Sadykhov, Azerbaijani kamancheh soloist Imamyar Hasanov, Afghani dutar and rubab
player Aziz Herawi, Persian ney master Hossein Omoumi, Persian tar player Ashkan
Ghafouri, Kurdish vocalist Ozden Oztoprak, and composer Ross Daly; Kurdish
filmmaker Nizamettin Aric; and Kurdish community leader and poet/singer Mustafa
Kart. All of these artists represent a variety of traditions, nationalities,
ethnicities and disciplines. The binding thread in bringing them together is the
observance of the vernal equinox or Nowruz, whose pre-Islamic origins are
embraced in different ways throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.Taking
place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, this concert helps to promote San
Francisco as a world center for international music collaborations.
Other
Festival Concert Highlights include: WOMEN SINGERS OF THE WORLD,
featuring a diverse group of female vocalists from several countries and
traditions; ROSS DALY & ENSEMBLE, musicians from Crete making their
San Francisco debut; DONA ROSA & ENSEMBLE a blind Fado singer from
Portugal making her San Francisco debut; MASTER WANG WEI CHINESE & WORLD
PERCUSSION CONCERT; WORLD MUSIC DJs & INSTRUMENTAL MASTERS, a
commissioned evening featuring Bay Area DJs and instrumentalists from around the
globe; and more....
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on events pageDoor Dog Music Productions is
funded in part by: Alliance for California Traditional Arts, Bank of the West,
California Arts Council, Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of
California Berkeley, Chinese Performing Arts Foundation, Creative Work Fund,
Fort Mason Foundation, Fund for Folk Culture, The James Irvine Foundation,
Potrero Nuevo Fund of the Tides Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, San
Francisco Grants for the Arts Hotel Tax Fund, Shulte Grants for the Arts &
Crafts, Society for Asian Art, WA Gerbode Foundation, William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, WESTAF, and the Zellerbach
Family Foundation.
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