World premiere at Essaouira’s Alizés Festival
This year’s Alizés Festival will host the world premiere of a new work by French jazz violinist Didier Lockwood.
The renowned French composer’s new work, a choral piece in Arabic, Latin and Hebrew, was composed especially for the festival. It will be performed at Bab El Menzah, a new open air location for the festival at one of the entry gates to the medina.
The as yet unnamed work will be performed by Essaouira’s resident Choir of Three Cultures, who sing works from Jewish, Christian and Islamic backgrounds.
Didier Lockwood will also perform Le Jazz et le Diva with his wife, Caroline Casadesus. Last year, this work won a prestigious Molière theater award in France for best musical performance.
The Alizés Festival, officially known as the Printemps Musical des Alizés (”Musical Spring of the Tradewinds”), brings together opera, chamber music and jazz. The festival takes place this year between April 19 and 22.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Myself and partner happened to be in Essouaira for this concert.
It was a fantastic experience,swathes of powerful musical emotion framed in the bewitching rythms and harmonies of the layered latin and hebrew and arabic music.
and fabulous fabulous singing, magic electric violin, or something, a japanese pianist, some brilliant solo singers……………
I am hoping it was recorded and might be available on cd.
An honour to be there.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Pianiste française,je souhaite recevoir le programme du Festival des Alizés,souhaitant y participer l’an prochain,veuillez me communiquer le nom du directeur avec ses coordonnées (email,tél.,fax).
Avec mes remerciements
Marie-Laure Muller