Online Event brought to you by Early Music Seattle
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WED. 10 NOV. 2021 at 7: 00 PM PST | 9 PM CST
Long before Mozart and his contemporaries became fascinated with the East, even before Italian city-states like Venice and Genoa became the gateways to Europe’s trade with Asia, there was a deep reciprocity across the Mediterranean from the Iberian Peninsula in the West to the eastern shores and onward to the newly-emerging, gilded city of Bagdad. In this Golden Age of Islam, which linked societies from the Indus River Valley to the Atlantic coast of Africa, incredible exchanges of knowledge took place – from science and mathematics to logic, geography and music! Join guest artist Ronnie Malley as we follow the journey of the legendary court musician Ziryab, who left the East to find a new home in the Caliphate of Al-Andalus in modern Spain. His musical influence would ripple across continents and centuries, as the Andalusian school of music impacted both medieval song in Europe and continues to this day through on-going revivals in the Middle East.
Ronnie Malley is a multi-instrumentalist musician, actor, composer, sound designer, producer, playwright, educator, and executive director of Intercultural Music Production. He performed and composed music for award-winning theatre productions and film, wrote the solo play, Ziryab, The Songbird Of Andalusia and co-wrote the Kennedy Center Citizen Award winning play, American Griot. Ronnie has a BA in Global Music Studies from DePaul University and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He is a teaching artist with Chicago Public Schools, an artist researcher with Chicago Arts Partnership in Education, and a guest lecturer at universities. Ronnie is an international artist and has performed with the music groups Allos Musica, Apollo’s Fire, Diwan Al-Han, EMME, Lamajamal, Mucca Pazza, Newberry Consort, Surabhi Ensemble, the Toronto Chamber Choir, and the University of Chicago Middle East Music Ensemble. He is a member of Actors Equity Association and the American Federation of Musicians.
Carlo Basile (Global Spanish Guitar)
Carlo Basile has a Masters Degree in Classical Guitar Performance from NEIU. He studied for 7 years with Anne Waller (head of the Northwestern University guitar program). Basile also travelled to Spain a number of times to study flamenco in Andalusia with guitarists Luis Ruiz, Jose Luis Rodriguez, and Flavio Rodriguez. Additionally, Basile has visited over 30 countries to perform, teach, and study ethnic music. Over the past 15 years, Basile has worked with Las Guitarras de España, a Spanish guitar-influenced world music ensemble which he founded. The ensemble has released 5 CDs to critical acclaim and has performed throughout the US for concerts, universities and major festivals such as SXSW.
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