RAED KOSHABA & JOSS TURNBULL 12.. - 14.2.2010

Dear friends of the Aoud, dear music friends,

I'm glad to have the chance to invite you to take part in the one of the two workshops we will have here in Badenweiler in our cultural project, the "KunstPalais Badenweiler"

friday 12th february - sunday 14th february 2010
Raed Koshaba, Aoud ( Bagdad/Aachen ) & Joss Turnbull, Percussion ( Mannheim )

for further information about this workshop, please get in contact with me and I will send you the detailed informations about this workshop by mail as a PDF file ( english or german version? )

Raed Koshaba
comes from the famous baghdad aoud shool of Munir Bashir, Jamil Bashir and his teacher Salem Abdul Karim. He was for years a member too of the ensemble "Al Bayrak" directed by Munir Bashir. For several years now he lives in germany and teaches in Liege/Belgium. He can be heard all around the world in concerts and on festivals. In youtube you will find 5 videos with him.

Raed Koshaba's Website

Raed Koshaba on Youtube

Joss Turnbull
Joss Turnbull, percussion The young and experimental percussionist Joss Turnbull is a true newcomer in the international world percussion scene. He was influenced by world percussion instruments right from the beginning of his life. Led and inspired by his father, percussionist Mike Turnbull, he started by learning latin and oriental hand drums. Later he was taught persian percussion by Mohammad Mortazavi and is currently studying latin percussion at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim. Over the years concerts and workshops have taken him all over Europe.

2002 Joss Turnbull was invited by Dr. Masaru Emoto to give an opening concert for the world wide congress of water in Lichtenstein. Furthermore Turnbull was supporting act from Trilok Gurtu and Hermann Kathans "Buschwerk" with Nippy Noya. In 2007 Joss was the youngest teacher at the International Frame Drum Festival "Tamburi Mundi" in Freiburg, Germany. Since 2008 he teaches frame drums and tombak at the oriental music academy Mannheim.

Frame drums are one of the oldest percussion instruments of the world. Possibly having its origin in the symbolic transformation of the flour sieve in ancient Mesopotamia it then spread throughout the world, developing on the way countless varieties of shape and sound.

In this workshop you will get an insight over the basic techniques and rhythms for the arabic tambourine riqq and for the large frame drum as played on the lap in a sitting position. Not just the training of individual playing skills will be in Joss's workshops but also the skills of ensemble playing. He works with an eye on the the whole playing posture so that an easy and relaxed way of playing can develop.

Additionally to the traditional Rhythms of the Orient Joss Turnbull also shows modern rhythms from fusion, pop and latin music and their adaption for the frame drum.

Individual lessons for the big frame drum (lap styl), arabic riqq and persian tombak Announcements in advance necessary

You can get an instruction for the large frame drum, the arabic riqq or for the persian tombak. The individualised instruction ( 25.-- / ½ hour ) is to deepen the personal playing style of your instrument and to work with your interest in special techniques or rhythms. You can focus on soloing or on accompanying with your Instrument. Joss covers traditional or modern established techniques as well as his personal playing style and shows their playing movements in a detailed and understandable way.

Joss Turnbull at myspace

Joss Turnbull's website

The information can be downloaded here.

Both teachers gave a wonderful concert last year. A small impression you can get in youtube under the following link:
Samai Munir Basher

With best regards your

Matthias Wagner