Kinan Azmeh
"My music inspires a wide spectrum of emotion. And a lot of it is experimental. During the joint project with Syrian composer Zaid Jabri for Dar al-Opera, I was watching the audience, and some people could not believe that this is music. When I performed the Gilgamesh project, a multimedia performance with animations by Kevork Mourad and music composed by myself, some people told me they had trouble breathing. And in the final scene, some people explained it as sleeping, others as dreaming, and some as dying. I like to leave it open to interpretation; it’s up to the audience to complete the meaning. Also, an audience can usually tell how much soul, practice, and technique has gone into a performance. They sense the honesty and the dedication, even if it’s not their favorite type of music. And as a performance, the art work is completed by you, the listeners, and how you interact with it. So each person receives the music and interprets it in their own way." A quote from Kinan Azmeh in FW-Magazine, May 2008
Kinan is performing with Dinuk Wijeratne and Mayookh Bhaumik.