DCV 300 – Wassim Ibrahim: Syriac Fantasy

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.

On Sunday, 27 November, the MezzopTrio will play at 15.00 in Ontmoetingscentrum Semsstraatkerk  The trio will play various classical pieces from the Middle Eastern music. In addition, the ensemble will play three new compositions that were composed especially for our previous concert (on July 3). The concert that was made possible by Fonds Podium Kunsten.

Wassim Ibrahim new composition “Congregatim”for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello will be performed during the Krakow Festival of Composers Tuesday 18 April, 7:00 p.m. KRAKOW COMPOSERS’ SCHOOL 2 K.

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.