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Immigrants who are professional musicians
Mécénat Musica Concerts Garage is principally offered to immigrants who are professional musicians. The aim is to help outstanding artists introduce their culture of origin, and work with local artists in a spirit of diversity and inclusion.
23% of the Canadian population are immigrants. Immigrant musicians were often artistic leaders in their countries of origin before their new lives in Montreal, in Quebec and in Canada.
Mécénat Musica Concerts Garage focuses on the Plateau-Mont-Royal, “the most densely populated district in Canada,” recognized internationally as a major artistic center with a large concentration of artists, musicians and arts organizations.
The aim is to work together to transmit culture as a notion, not just as a series of performances. Mécénat Musica Concerts Garage is the initiative of Ziya Tabassian, supported by the donors of Mécénat Musica and Concerts noncerto since 2016.
Artists from
Germany, the U.S., Armenia, Argentina, the Balkans, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Chile, Hispanic and francophone countries, Greece, India, Inuit lands, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Mali, Morocco, mixed races, Moldova, Pashtun cultures, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda, Switzerland, Syria, Tahiti, Thailand, Turkey, Yiddish-speaking cultures.
Ziya Tabassian, Tombak
Photo: Ciny Voitus
Artists
Ziya Tabassian, Omar Abou Afach, Nadine Altounji, Didem Basar, Nadia Bashalani, Nazih Borish, Noémy Braun, Charles Cantin, Pedro Diaz, Gabriel Dharmoo, Monica Freire, Sema Gultekin, Habib Hosseini, Janelle Lucyk, Elham Manouchehri, Matthias Maute, Elizaveta Miller, Deogratias Munyakazi, Uwe Neumann, Fourat Oubahou, Sergiu Popa, Diogo Ramos, Monsieur Raph, Gabriel Schwartz, Sanaz Sotoudeh, Nina Segalowitz, Naeem Shanwar, Anjana Srinivasan, Djeli Tapa, Showan Tavakol, Maryam Tazhdeh, Daniel K. Thagard, Diely Mori Tounkara, Zezhou Wang, Lamia Yared.
Ensembles
Duo Colias, Cordâme, Ensemble Urmawi, LiKouri, Trio Golshan, Orkestar Kriminal, Regard Persan, Les Temps Perdus, Solawa, Taraf Syriana.
Composers
Ziya Tabassian, Didem Basar, Monica Freire, Ben Grossman, Matthias Maute, Deogratias Munyakazi, Pooria Pournazeri, Monsieur Raph, Sanaz Sotoudeh, Maryam Tazhdeh, Alex Tibbitts.
Genres / Instruments
Folk accordion, throat singing (Inuit), darbuka (percussion), didgeridoo (Australian aboriginal wind instrument with a long wooden tube), ektara (one-string instrument from South Asia), ethnic flutes, bossa nova guitar from France, gimbri (Moroccan lute), guzheng (Chinese plucked zither), bionic harp, inanga (Rwandan zither), kamancheh (Iranian bowed instrument), kemençe (Turkish violin), kora (West African harp), mandolin, oud (Arabian lute), sitar (Indian lute), tanbur (Kurdish lute), tar (Iranian lute), tsimbl (dulcimer), tombak (Iranian goblet drum), Carnatic violin (Indian), kanun (Turkish zither), qanûn (large Arabian zither with a trapezoidal soundboard).
Translation: Cecilia Grayson
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