Silkroad Up-Close: Kaoru Watanabe, Kinan Azmeh and Maeve Gilchrist @ SHOW @ 8:00 pm / DOORS @ 7:00 pm $60 MEMBER / $65 ADVANCE / $75 DAY OF SEATED SHOW / ALL AGES (UNDER 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A LEGAL GUARDIAN) TICKETS ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL Limit of 4 tickets per purchaser Group Sales are available to our Business Advocates, learn more ABOUT SILKROAD UP-CLOSE Genre: WORLD WEBSITE / FACEBOOK / INSTAGRAM A Grammy Award-winning musical ensemble, Silkroad is a collective of artists representing dozens of nationalities, traditions and ideas, who use music and art to demonstrate how great beauty can emerge from great difference. The Ensemble strives to engage difference, sparking radical collaboration and music with a purpose, for a more hopeful and inclusive world. ABOUT KINAN AZMEH Hailed by critics and audiences alike, clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh has gained international recognition for his distinctive voice across diverse musical genres. His album Uneven Sky with the Deutsches Symphony Orchestra won the OPUS KLASSIK Award in 2019. Originally from Damascus, Syria, Kinan brings his music to all corners of the world as a soloist, composer, collaborator, and improviser. Notable appearances include the Opera Bastille, Paris; Tchaikovsky Grand Hall, Moscow; Carnegie Hall and the UN General Assembly, New York; Royal Albert Hall, London; Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin; Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, Washington DC; the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie; and in his native Syria at the opening concert of the Damascus Opera House. Kinan has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Dusseldorf Symphony, the West- Eastern Divan Orchestra, Azerbaijan State Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Toronto Symphony, A Far Cry, The Knights, Calgary Philharmonic, Qatar Philharmonic, and the Syrian Symphony Orchestra among others and has shared the stage with such musical luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim, Marcel Khalife, John McLaughlin, Francois Rabbath, Aynur and Jivan Gasparian. Kinan is renowned for his diverse portfolio of compositions spanning solo, chamber, and orchestral music, as well as film scores, live illustration, and electronic music. His recent works have garnered acclaim, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, The Knights, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Elbphilharmonie, Apple Hill String Quartet, Quatuor Voce, Brooklyn Rider, Cello Octet Amsterdam, the Aizuri Quartet, and Bob Wilson. His first opera Songs for Days to Come which is fully sung in Arabic, was premiered in Osnabruck, Germany in June 2022 to a great acclaim. A champion of contemporary music, Kinan has been honored with dedications of several clarinet concertos by composer colleagues including Kareem Roustom, Dia Succari, Dinuk Wijeratne, Zaid Jabri, Saad Haddad, Kyle Sanna, and Guss Jans...
