SOLD OUT: Elements: Palaver Strings with Kinan Azmeh and Brian Shankar Adler

Palaver Strings is joined by award-winning clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and percussionist Brian Adler for Elements— a very special program exploring the fluid space between improvisation and composition, drawing on classical, jazz, and Syrian folk elements. The program features original compositions by the guest soloists, including a world premiere of Kinan Azmeh’s Syrian Dances for String Orchestra. Elements takes its name from the experience of a warm summer run in the rain, and speaks to broader themes of feeling in (or out) of one’s element musically and culturally. These themes are echoed in Kareem Roustom’s Dabke for String Orchestra and Brian Shankar Adler’s Rudram, based on a Vedic chant that he heard growing up in an ashram.

Program: 
Dabke – Kareem Roustom
Syrian Dances – Kinan Azmeh (World Premiere)
In The Element – Kinan Azmeh
Rudram – Brian Shankar Adler
Suite for Improvisor and Orchestra – Kinan Azmeh