Oriental Music-Summerakademie Badenweiler
31.8. - 4.9.2011

concerts - reading - workshops


  • 21.8., 19 Uhr im Hotel Römerbad -

    " Fernweh - Geschichten aus 1001 Nacht "

    reading: Eva Mattes
    music: Adel Salameh, Aoud
    Adel Shams El Din, Percussion
    Naziha Azzouz, Voice

  • 1.9. / 2.9. / 3.9. concerts with oriental music in the KunstPalais
    exact program will follow in may, please visit this site again.

  • 4.9., 11:15 concert of the participants in the KunstPalais

  • lectures:

    • Aoud ( oriental lute ) - Adel Salameh, Palestine/Lyon
    • perkussion - Adel Shams El Din, egypt/Paris
    • Kanun - NN
    • Ney - NN, only if there are enough interest
    • oriental singing - NN only if there are enough interest

lecture 1: Adel Salameh, Aoud


The workshop informations:

Palestinian oud player and composer, Adel Salameh was born in Nablus, Palestine, in 1966. he studied the oud with the Iraqi master M'utaz Bayati. He started performing as a soloist while still living in the Arab World, but immigrated to Europe in 1990. He quickly established a reputation as one of the finest performers of the oud. He has performed in more than Fifty countries including Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Malaysia,Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, and numerous countries in North Africa, North America and Europe. When performing as a soloist or with musicians from a variety of musical backgrounds, Adel believes that music is an excellent tool to build bridges between various cultures. In an effort to tackle these cultural barriers, he has worked with Turkish (Barbaros Erkose), Spanish (Eduaurdo Niebla), Indian (K Sridhar), Dutch Neuw Ensemble, French, English, Italian and jazz musicians(Plain Sud). Adel has worked with Womad/Real World since 1992,and performed at the most prestigious concert halls in Europe. These include Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre in London, Concertgebouw, Royal Tropical Institute, Paradiso in Amsterdam, Theatre d' Single (Antwerpen) Belguim, Institute of the Arab World in Paris, The Opera House and the Auditorium in Lyon. He has also performed at many festivals throughout the World. He has been described as the ambassador of Arab music in the West. Adel has compsoed music for films and theater like the thousand and one night which took place in Lyon in 2007 ..... Adel has recorded 9 cds with different record companies including Real World and Enja records in Germany. The Aoud Workshop:

  • The Oud workshop will be offered for all levels.
  • An introduction to the Maqam system and taqsim in Arab classical music...... is included
  • historical back ground of Arab music of arabian music will be explained.

lecture 2 2: Adel Shams El Din, Perkussion


Adel SHAMS EL-DIN, an Egyptian master of the Riqq (percussion with little cymbals) is well versed in the classical and the popular rhythms of the various Arab traditions. He has been a close friend of Julien Jalal Eddine Weiss, and has worked with the group Al-Kindi since the day it was founded.

The following instruments can be taught:

  • Daff (Douf, Bandir)
  • Darboukah (Doumbake, Egyptian Tablah).
  • Riqq (Tar).
  • It is based on the oriental traditional, folk, clasicals rythems(cycles The workshop is planned for professional players

lecture 3: Naziha Azzouz, voice


Naziha Azzouz, Algeria/France, voice Naziha Azzouz was born in Algeria and moved to France at the age of 12. She started singing the old Andalucian music at a very early age and performed in Algeria, France, Morocco, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

In 1998 Naziha first met Adel to study Arabic music, i.e. the music of the Orient, which has nothing to do with North African music. Since that time, Naziha and Adel have worked together and recorded 2 CDs, Nuzha & Kanza. Last year they toured all over the United Kingdom, Europe, and Morocco.

Naziha has also worked with medieval groups. The French newspaper, Le Monde, has described her voice as, "This is no ordinary voice. This voice is coming from Paradise."

Naziha and Adel have toured Europe to promote their most recent CD, Kanza. In this tour they performed in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Ireland and Belgium.

lecture 4: Kanun, NN


This course may be offered if there is enough of interest. So please be so king make an appointment to let us know if you have interest to take lessons in Kanun.



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Best regards Matthias Wagnerr

Matthias Wagner