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Join our drink on January 24th
The Donemus Foundation invites you for our annual network drink at the Hague Tower. Meet composers, conductors, programmers etc... Read More
Martijn Padding – Three Birthday Pieces for Louis Andriessen
NTR ZaterdagMatinee commissioned Martijn Padding to write an orchestral work for the occasions of the 80th birthday of Louis Andriessen. Paddings Three Birthday Pieces will have its world premiere on Saturday afternoon in the Concertgebouw, together with a brand new work by Andriessen himself (The Only One)... Read More
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Wassim Ibrahim string quartet piece will be played 3 times; The Hague, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam– Syriac Fantasy
The life in the Syriac – Aramaic Church has a feeling of the emancipation of time. It consists of constant motion, in an attempt to dive into the inner life of Man, unleashes the imagination in purely spiritual life. Syriac fantasy is one of various Syriac Aramaic stories.
Wassim Ibrahim, was born in Damascus, Syria in 1978. In 1998 he finished his first undergraduate study in civil engineering assistant at Damascus University; working for seven years on projects throughout the country. Even as his engineering career was being launched, a serious musical study was pursued; continuing the passion he had begun at only six years old; playing the recorder and the oud. Concurrent with his early engineering endeavors, Ibrahim began rigorous private study in oud performance with master teacher Fayez Zahr Aldin.
Shortly thereafter, he began the study of harmony and counterpoint with Prof. Bella Tagezieva. Committed to completing academic musical study at the highest level, Ibrahim entered the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus in 2005; graduating in 2010. Among his professors were renown Professors Serge Kopperanov (composition), Bella Tagezieva (theory),Victor Babenko (conducting) and Maestro Missak Baghboudarian; Artistic Director of the Syrian Symphony Orchestra. Ibrahim completed a Master of Music degree in composition at the Music Academy of Krakow, Poland in 2015 under the direction of Prof. Józef Rychlik. in 2019 he got his PhD in Music Composition at the Music Academy of Krakow, Poland, under supervision of Prof. Wojciech Widłak.
Insomnio speelt Benoliel - Nieuws - Vrije Geluiden
Ulrich Pöhl (Insomnio) over componist Bernard Benoliel