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2024


Friday 20 September
Evening concert
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA


Doors 7pm

Music 7.30pm
Ends 11pm


Thorayya Kaddoura ثريّا قدّورة, “Soufounan Banaha Nouh” (1925-26)

Fixed media

Kareem Samara كريم سمارة

Live audiovisual set

Soosan Lolavar سوسن لولااور + Colin Alexander

Live set

Zeynep Toraman, Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon (2023)

Co-commission with Ensemble Contrechamps, for electric guitar, clarinet, violin, cello & electronics, performed by Distractfold Ensemble (Rocío Bolaños, Daniel Brew, Linda Jankowska, Sergio Serra Lopez). Film by Burak Çevik. UK premiere

Sam Salem أسامة سالم, Waves of crashing blackness (2024)

For piano, electronics & fixed audiovisual media, performed by Mark Knoop. World premiere

BINT بنت  

Live audiovisual set

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Little is known of Thorayya Kaddoura ثريّا قدّورة. She was a singer who lived in Jerusalem and is mentioned in Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s The Storyteller of Jerusalem, The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948. She likely moved to Egypt in the mid- to late 1920s and worked with Sayyed Shata, an Egyptian composer and oudist. “Soufounan Banaha Nouh” (“Ships Built by Noah”) was released by Baidaphon in either 1925 or 1926. This recording was provided by the AMAR Foundation for Arab Music Archiving & Research, with additional information provided by the Palestinian Institute for Cultural Development NAWA. Catalog no B084633, collection of Kamal Kassar.