Layale Chaker & Holland Baroque
Layale Chaker violin/compositions, Nizar Rohana ud.
Holland Baroque: Judith Steenbrink, Filip Rekieć violin, Tineke Steenbrink organ/harmonium/harpsichord, Rodney Prada viola da gamba, Michal Bak double Bass, Orí Harmelin lute, Joël Grare percussion
A dream will come true for violinist/composer Layale Chaker now that she will collaborate with the ensemble Holland Baroque, which she admires because of their adaptations of old music into new stories.
Commonly they have developed the program Moonchild: Songs from the Hinder Sea, uniting baroque and old music repertory from both sides of the Mediterranean Sea: Spain, Italy and France on one side and the Arabic levant on the other. Special guest for this world premiere is ud player/composer Nizar Rohana, who is based in The Netherlands.
The repertory of this collaborative program will include baroque, renaissance and medieval music as well as contemporary works, by composers such as Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Merula, Macque, Von Bingen, Khammash, Shaaban and Darwish, as arranged by Judith Steenbrink, Tineke Steenbrink and Layale Chaker.
The program also features the premiere of a composition by Layale Chaker herself, commissioned for the birth of this project by NewLands Festival.
As a musician, Layale has a strong connection to Arabic poetry and its intrinsic rhythms and melodies. Alongside classical Arabic literature and poetry she has also studied postmodern and modern poetry by the likes of Badr Shakir el Sayyab, Nazek al Malaika, Taha Muhammad Ali, Al Maghout and Talal Haidar. Her passion for language and recital resonates in her arrangements and compositions.
Holland Baroque is known for their singular projects which traverse unknown roads with finesse, together with, for example, Wu-Wei, Reinbert de Leeuw, Giovanni Sollima or Aisslinn Nosky.
With his work, ud virtuoso/composer Nizar Rohana bridges tradition and modern music in new and passionate ways.
