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Ensemble vocal Murmurosi

Ran Wang (ghuzeng), Annette Bauer (sarod, flûtes)

Pierre Chartrand (câlleur & gigue), Alexis Chartrand (violon), Nicolas Babineau (violon)

Dicko Fils

Rodrigo Simoes (guitare), Andy Connel (clarinette)

Altiplano Ensemble

Siraba – Lancement d’album

Uuriintuya Khalivan (morin khurr), Bayarsaikhan Tsogtsaikhan (flûtes mongoles)

Deo Munyakazi (inanga et chant)

Fikret Karakaya will be giving a masterclass on 24 and 25 May, from 10 am to 3 pm. It will take place at the Centre des Musiciens du Monde. The aim will be to work on musicality, phrasing, intonation, understanding makams and so on.

Here’s how the masterclasses will work:

You bring your instrument and two or three pieces from the Ottoman/Turkish repertoire, with the scores. You will play them in front of Mr Karakaya, and he will advise you on ways of interpreting, on lʼintonation, phrasing, etc.

Places are limited, and I would ask you to book your place as soon as possible, before it is full, as well as paying the money for this masterclass. To do this, write to royerartusonicolas@gmail.com.

Price of the masterclass: $200 for the two days

You can also attend the masterclass as a listener for $50 for both days.

Fikret Karakaya will be giving a masterclass on 24 and 25 May, from 10 am to 3 pm. It will take place at the Centre des Musiciens du Monde. The aim will be to work on musicality, phrasing, intonation, understanding makams and so on.

Here’s how the masterclasses will work:

You bring your instrument and two or three pieces from the Ottoman/Turkish repertoire, with the scores. You will play them in front of Mr Karakaya, and he will advise you on ways of interpreting, on lʼintonation, phrasing, etc.

Places are limited, and I would ask you to book your place as soon as possible, before it is full, as well as paying the money for this masterclass. To do this, write to royerartusonicolas@gmail.com.

Price of the masterclass: $200 for the two days

You can also attend the masterclass as a listener for $50 for both days.

Accompanied on the oud/ud by Nicolas Royer-Artuso, the master Fikret Karakaya will demonstrate the richness of Ottoman melodies and the modes specific to this music, as well as the art of ornamentation, through his playing of the kemençe, a small lyre with a powerful sound. This exceptional concert will be a tribute to the great composers of the Ottoman era and to the art of improvisation (taksim).

Firket Karakaya is a singer, kemençe and çeng player, composer, musicologist, writer and instrument maker. Until his retirement, he was a musician and presenter for TRT (Turkey’s national radio station). He is the founder and director of the Bezmara Ensemble, which has been invited to perform in many countries, and has eleven albums to its credit.
Nicolas Royer-Artuso is a composer, musician (oud, electronic violin and fretless guitar), linguist, musicologist and writer. His work has been presented in Germany, England, Armenia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Finland, France, Georgia, Holland, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey and the United States.

Voice of the body
A musical experience in which the body becomes a veritable instrument of Brazilian music. With songs, rhythms and movement, this musical experience takes you on a sensitive journey through the living sounds of the body and the voice.
With :
Lu Horta: voice and body percussion
Marcelo Effori: percussion and sampler
Gabriel Shwartz: guitar

Lu Horta is a Brazilian artist (singer, composer, body percussionist and teacher). She has a degree in popular music from the Public University of Campinas (UNICAMP). A founding member of the Barbatuques body percussion group, she has helped to create five albums and collaborated on soundtracks (Tropa de Elite, Trash – City of Hope, Rio 2 and The Boy and the World, nominated for an Oscar in 2016). Lu Horta also has a prolific solo career, with critically acclaimed albums such as Paraíso Eu in 2009 and A Noiva da Cidade in 2013. A committed artist, she uses her voice for social causes, notably in a campaign against violence against women. Since 2023, she has lived in Montreal, where she is involved in artistic collaborations with local artists and educational projects with Orff Québec, UQAM, the Maison des arts participatifs and the Centre des musiciens du monde.

The klezmer tradition and its danceable yet poignant melodies will be interpreted on clarinet and accordion, two idiomatic instruments of this music that has travelled from Eastern Europe.

Gabriel Paquin-Buki is a clarinettist renowned on the Montreal scene for the subtlety of his playing and the diversity of his interpretations. He is a graduate of the Université de Montréal, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in performance in the class of Jean-François Normand.

In 2010, he founded the group Oktopus, an octet of Eastern European music (klezmer, Balkan, classical) with whom he has performed over 250 concerts in Quebec, Canada and Europe. His arrangements and compositions on the albums Lever l’encre and Hapax have earned him Juno and Canadian Folk Music Award nominations.

In 2017, he immersed himself in books to complete a master’s degree in comparative literature at the Université de Montréal. In his thesis, he explored the delicate subject of laughter in Holocaust literature. Since then, he has divided his time between travelling, music and words.

Josh Dolgin, aka Socalled, is a Canadian musician, rapper and producer renowned internationally for his unique style, which blends hip-hop, klezmer, folk music and electro. Born in Montreal, he is also a pianist and accordionist, and has taught the instrument at London’s Klezfest, where he has also run ‘hiphopkele’ workshops.

A key figure on the contemporary klezmer scene, Josh Dolgin has collaborated with renowned artists such as David Krakauer, Michael Winograd, Fred Wesley, Chilly Gonzales, Sophie Solomon and The Mighty Sparrow. His SoCalled collective project has made its mark with concerts such as Hip Hop Hanukkah, which celebrates the meeting of Jewish cultures and urban music.

In 2010, the National Film Board of Canada devoted a documentary to him, The ‘Socalled’ Movie, which retraces the adventure of the first ‘Klezmer Cruise’ on the Dnieper River in Ukraine. In 2013, he also wrote the remix of Moe Koffman’s Curried Soul, which became the official theme for CBC Radio One’s As It Happens.

Sitaria is a musical project led by sitarist Uwe Neumann, accompanied for this concert by percussionist Subir Dev. Sitaria explores the melodic richness and rhythmic power of the Hindustani (North Indian) tradition. The performances are a skilful blend of composition and improvisation, testifying to the musicians’ profound mastery and close working relationship. The sitar, at the heart of the project, is an emblematic instrument born in the 13th century from the encounter between Indian tradition (Veena, ragas) and Persian influences (Rabab).

Uwe Neumann is a renowned sitar musician and an ambassador for Indian classical music. A recipient of the Ravi Shankar Memorial Award, he studied for ten years in India with the master Pandit Indranil Bhattacharya, obtaining a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music (1997) from Visva Bharati University in Shantiniketan. He has been training with Sri Partha Bose since 2009.

Founder of the Ragleela group in 1990, he has played at numerous festivals in India, including the Millennium Concert in Benares in 1999, in front of thousands of spectators and dignitaries such as the Dalai Lama and Narendra Modi. Based in Montreal since 2000, he has given over 400 concerts across North America, Europe and India, at prestigious events such as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Sunfest, and the Vancouver Folk Festival. In addition to Ragleela, he is involved in various projects: Sitaria (sitar-tablas)

From improvisation to co-composition, the Perse-Inca Duo draws on a variety of traditional rhythms and genres, bringing together Middle Eastern modal textures and Andean pentatonics, as well as Eastern melodies and Western harmonies.

With Federico Tarazona, composition, charango and Showan Tavakol, composition, kamancheh.

Three 30-minute concerts:
11 a.m., 12 p.m. and 1 p.m.

Fulani music from Burkina Faso combines song, n’goni and rhythm to tell the epic story of Fulani life and culture. The deep melodies of the n’goni (a plucked string instrument originally from West Africa) evoke the vast plains and stories handed down from generation to generation, while the percussion adds an earthly dimension to this celestial music, inviting us to dance and celebrate.

Dicko Fils (Moulaye Dicko) is a musician from Burkina Faso of Fulani origin. A master of the kamale n’goni, he has made a name for himself with his melodious voice and virtuoso playing, fusing the Fulani and Mandingo traditions. After studying the Koran in Mali, he moved to Abidjan, where he discovered reggae, before founding his group Le Faso Kanou in 1992. His first album, Tounga (2005), marked the start of a prolific career with regular releases until 2016. His song Denke Denke became an anthem in West African clubs. In 2016, he won the Kundé d’Or, Burkina Faso’s highest musical award, as well as several other prizes, including Best Modern Traditionally Inspired Song with Wakati. In March 2025, he released his 12th album, La Route, recorded between Burkina Faso and Montreal. This opus blends Afrobeat, Mandingo blues and messages of peace, love and living together.

With Mohamed Masmoudi on traditional oud, solo.

For his solo concert, pianist Gabriel Evangelista offers us his compositions and arrangements of pieces from the flamenco, jazz and Afro-Cuban repertoires. His expressive style, sometimes gentle, sometimes lively, will energize any audience.

Concert will be offer at tha Public Piano on Laurier Avenue, near Querbes street

Siraba means the great way, a proposal for dialogue between 3 continents…
Attend an outdoor concert featuring the ancient traditions of Mali, West Africa, South America and Europe!

Musicians : Adama Daou: balafon; Gabriel Schwartz: flute, pandeiro; Aboulaye Koné: electric guitar; Christian Obam: electric bass

Pre-concert workshop: discovery and introduction to the balafon by Adama Daou, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Siraba means the great way, a proposal for dialogue between 3 continents…
Attend an outdoor concert featuring the ancient traditions of Mali, West Africa, South America and Europe!

Musicians: Adama Daou: balafon; Gabriel Schwartz: flute, pandeiro; Aboulaye Koné: electric guitar; Christian Obam: electric bass

An onstage discussion with the artists will take place after the show.

Concert offered as part of Zones musicales at Maison des Arts de Laval.

Siraba means the great way, a proposal for dialogue between 3 continents…
Attend an outdoor concert featuring the ancient traditions of Mali, West Africa, South America and Europe!

Musicians: Adama Daou: balafon; Gabriel Schwartz: flute, pandeiro; Aboulaye Koné: electric guitar; Christian Obam: electric bass

An onstage discussion with the artists will take place after the show.

Concert offered as part of Zones musicales at Maison des Arts de Laval.

Against a backdrop of 17th-century sounds, the voices and instruments of the Constellation de cordes project blend and overlap to weave a work constantly renewed by the improvisations of Deo Munyakazi (Rwanda) on his inanga zither.

Artists: Janelle Lucyck, violin & vocals | Deo Munyakazi, inanga & vocals | Kerry Bursey, theorbo | Reza Abaee, ghaychak fiddle

Free concert as part of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal’s Virée Classique OSM.

Discover an itinerary where each note becomes a pause on the path to discovering the Other. The artists celebrate the richness of their respective cultures (Persian and Mongolian), woven together like silk threads, seeking harmonies beyond borders and distances.

With the morin khuur (horse-headed fiddle) and the santur (table zither), melodies intertwine like the paths that crisscross the desert and steppe.

Artists: Uuriintuya Khalivan, morin-khuur | Sadaf Amini, santur

Siraba means the great way, a proposal for dialogue between 3 continents…
Attend an outdoor concert featuring the ancient traditions of Mali, West Africa, South America and Europe!

Musicians: Adama Daou: balafon; Gabriel Schwartz: flute, pandeiro; Aboulaye Koné: electric guitar; Christian Obam: electric bass

This nickname, which means “the twins,” evokes their resemblance and complicity: on one side, a Spanish pianist dedicated to Cuban music who also plays percussion, and on the other, a Cuban percussionist dedicated to Spanish music who also plays piano.

In their musical encounter, musicians Ran Wang (guzheng) and Annette Bauer (sarod, recorders, duduk, pipe and tabor) traverse the silk road from East to West. Their journey invites the audience along a geographical route from China via India to Italy. Together, they weave through different historical periods by presenting music from the ancient Han dynasty (200BC-9AD) to music from the emerging European 15^th century Renaissance.

The program equally imagines and draws inspirations from different physical and emotional landscapes that might be encountered by a timeless traveller – from witnessing a deeply moving beauty in unfamiliar landscapes, to adventurously daring to set out on a long journey, to the loneliness that a traveller can experience far away from home. Above all, their musical journey is a conversation between the sounds of their instruments, and the manifold vibrations of their strings, giving room for improvisations, and an exploration of the unknown.

On the musical paths leading to the Silk Road, Uuriintuya Khalivan, carrying the breath of Mongolia, and Sadaf Amini, carrying the echoes of Iran, met in Montreal. Together, they chart their own course, where each note becomes a pause on the path to discovering the Other. They celebrate the richness of their respective cultures, woven like silk threads, seeking harmonies beyond borders, beyond distances.

With the morin khuur (horsehead fiddle) and the santur (table zither), they create melodies that intertwine like the paths that crisscross the desert and the steppe. Their music resonates like an echo of centuries past, a testament to beauty and diversity, a vibrant tribute to the timeless magic of the Silk Road.

Uuriintuya Khalivan (Mongolia) and Sadaf Amini (Iran) met in Montreal, sparking a musical journey at the Silk Roads’ crossroads. Together, they blend their unique musical backgrounds, where each note is a step on a meandering path. The duo celebrates their own respective cultures, woven together like a silk thread, searching for harmonies beyond borders and distances.

With the morin-khuur (horsehead fiddle) and santur (hammered dulcimer), they weave melodies, like threads of silk, reminiscent of paths across the desert and the steppes, echoing the timeless magic of the infamous Silk Road.

Uuriintuya Khalivan (Mongolia) and Sadaf Amini (Iran) met in Montreal, sparking a musical journey at the Silk Roads’ crossroads. Together, they blend their unique musical backgrounds, where each note is a step on a meandering path. The duo celebrates their own respective cultures, woven together like a silk thread, searching for harmonies beyond borders and distances.

With the morin-khuur (horsehead fiddle) and santur (hammered dulcimer), they weave melodies, like threads of silk, reminiscent of paths across the desert and the steppes, echoing the timeless magic of the infamous Silk Road.