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Rihab Azar

Archived Event

Wigmore Sessions: Rihab Azar
Date
Fri 04 Oct 2024, 6.00pm
Tickets
Archived Event
Duration

This concert will be approximately 50 minutes in duration, without an interval

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Programme

  • Rihab Azar
    b. 1988
      • Biography of a Bubble
      • Samaie
      • Questions, The Pull of Time

Overview

Rihab Azar is a London-based, Syrian/British oud player. Performing internationally since 2008; in 2014 she became the first woman oudist to perform accompanied by the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music, and in 2016 Arts Council England recognised her as a musician of 'Exceptional Promise'. Join Rihab Azar for an informal, intimate performance in the Wigmore Hall Learning Room - which will be specially dressed for the occasion.

Rihab will perform compositions by oud players/composers from the Middle East and North Africa in addition to her own compositions. Rihab’s style and creative voice reflects her deep musical roots in Middle-Eastern music, her classical training at the conservatoire of Damascus, as well as the numerous cross-genre collaborations she’s been involved in throughout her career in the UK.

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