Morgenland Festival Osnabrueck
The Morgenland Festival Osnabrück has dedicated itself since 2005 to the fascinating music culture of the Near and Middle East, from traditional music to classic and avant-garde, jazz and rock. With its focus on a region which immediately conjures up positive and negative cliché images, the Festival has set itself the goal of counteracting these images with authentic ones. The Festival gives the audience and its guests the opportunity to encounter one another as something complex – sometimes related, sometimes inspirationally alien. The Morgenland Festival Osnabrück has realized Choir and Orchestra projects in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. In 2013 it invited some 65 musicians from 9 countries to Kurdistan, Iraq for a Festival lasting several days with performances in Erbil and Sulaimaniya. Other highlights of the Festival were the first concert in Iran by a western symphony orchestra since 1979 or the first performance ever in Iran of Bach's St. John Passion.
Morgenland Youngsters & Friends – REYHAN
Trailer – Kayhan Kalhor, Yo-Yo Ma, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Alan Gilbert
Michel Godard, Chris Jennings, Salman Gambarov, Bodek Janke – Mugam by Vagif Mustafazadeh
Michel Godard / Chris Jennings / Salman Gambarov / Bodek Janke – Echoes Drift
Yasamin Shahhosseini & Mehdi Emami – Tasnif Abou-Ata
Mohannad Nasser Ensemble with Basma Jabr – Schengen
Tigran Hamasyan – Aragats
Tigran Hamasyan – Fides Tua
Moslem Rahal / Luigi Grasso / Vahagn Hayrapetyan – Encounter
Synkope – Illusion
Golnar Shahyar & Atena Eshtiaghi – Nava
Moslem Rahal / Luigi Grasso / Vahagn Hayrapetyan – Laïla Djân
Golnar Shayhar & Atena Eshtiaghi – Hezar Dastan
Moslem Rahal / Luigi Grasso / Vahagn Hayrapetyan – Ya Maryam Al-Bakr
Rony Barrak & Hussein Zahawy – live at Morgenland Festival Osnabrueck 2012
Simin Tander new quartet with Tord Gustavsen – My Weary Heart
Golnar & Mahan Trio – Use the chance
Simin Tander new quartet with Tord Gustavsen – The Body
Simin Tander new quartet & Tord Gustavsen – Nargees Afterglow
Layale Chaker & Cappella Amsterdam - Morien en Batar & Suspension from The Bow and the Reed
Rabih Lahoud / Florian Weber / Ensemble Modern - Transforming now, excerpt I
Rabih Lahoud / Florian Weber / Ensemble Modern - Transforming now, excerpt II
Kayhan Kalhor Ensemble - live at Morgenland Festival Osnabrueck 2023
Hues of Imagination featuring Yazz Ahmed - Improvisation I
Mehdi Aminian - Loom of Life - Daare Zendegi / Woven Sounds Project
Mehdi Aminian - Pattern Singing - Naqshe khani / Woven Sounds Project
Aynur & Osnabrueck Symphony Orchestra - Allı Turnam
Basilius Alawad - Arabesque for violoncello & orchestra