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One Minute Late
Concert by Rima Khcheich, Accompanied by Rabih Mroué |
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Wednesday September 2, 2009 at 8:30pm
Entrance: 15 000 LL |
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  About the event |
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The renowned Lebanese singer Rima Khcheich started singing at the age of seven. Two years later she became soloist of the Beirut Arab Orchestra and Choir, singing the most difficult repertoire in Arabic vocal music. In 1997 she graduated of the Lebanese National Conservatory of Music, and the Lebanese American University, and started performing live throughout the Middle East, Europe and the USA specializing in Arab-Andalusian Muwashshahat form the 19th & 20th century, as well as the traditional Arabic repertoire.
In 1998, Rima Khcheich met Dutch jazz musicians from the Yuri Honing trio, featuring Yuri Honing (saxophone), Tony Overwater (double-bass) and Joost Lijbaart (drums). They performed together in Beirut, at al-Madina Theater in 1998. The chemistry felt like magic, and Orient-Express CD project was born. Then, on her solo debut album Yalalalli, Khcheich transgressed tradition, recording an Arabic Muwashah only accompanied by the bass player Tony Overwater. The result was stunning.
In the summer of 2006, Khcheich visited Netherlands to perform a concert at the War and Peace Conference in Amsterdam. She performed with Tony Overwater, Yuri Honing, Maarten van der Grinten and Joost Lijbaart, the result was so gripping, the group committed immediately to producing the album Falak, joined by the acclaimed Lebanese Riq player, Ali Khatib.
Since 1999, Rima Khcheich is an instructor of Classical Arabic Singing at the Lebanese National Superior Conservatory of Music in Beirut, and a faculty member of the Annual Arabic Music Retreat at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts .
Rabih Mroué (born 1967 in Beirut) is an actor, director and playwright. In 1990 he began putting on his own plays, performances, and videos.
Among Mroué’s works: “The Inhabitants of images”, “How Nancy wished that everything was an April Fool’s Joke” with Fadi Toufiq, “Make me stop smoking”, “Looking for a missing employee”, “Three Posters” with Elias Khoury, “Biokhraphia” with Lina Saneh, “I, the undersigned”, “Who’s afraid of representation?”, “Face A/ Face B” and other… |
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