Sunday 9 December 2007
ORIENTAL MUSIC ENSEMBLE
i.c.w. Stichting De Levante
Suhail Khoury-ney, clarinet, Ibrahim Atari-qanoun, Yousef Hbeish-percussion, Ahmad Al-Khatib-oud
The Oriental Music Ensemble (OME), founded in 1997 by teachers of the National Music Conservatory of the Edward Said University in Jerusalem, is one of the most famous and respected contemporary Palestine music groups. The repertoire of OME consists of classical Arabian music, compositions of Lebanese, Kurdish, Turkish, Iraqi, Egyptian and Tunesian composers, as well as original material in which will be improvised rhythmically and melodically.