YASAMIN SHAHHOSSEINI & TRISTAN DRIESSENS

7/9/2024

den turkise have: 14:00 // entré: gratis

Experience the very first meeting between the Belgian oud player Tristan Driessens and the Iranian oud master Yasamin Shahhosseini, as they unite different musical languages to create powerful poetic soundscapes.

PROGRAM

➤ Garden opens: 13:00
➤ Yasamin Shahhosseini & Tristan Driessens: 14:00

With the Luthopia duet series, Belgian oud player Tristan Driessens initiates a project which reflects a dream of many years. For this very first edition, he enters a dialogue with Iranian oud master Yasamin Shahhosseini. Comprising of both solo and duet parts, a concert with Luthopia highlights the richness of the oud, an Eastern lute emblematic in both Persian and Turkish-Arabic music over the course of many centuries.

With modal improvisations and traditional as well as new compositions, Luthopia creates an atmosphere of contemplation and joy, showcasing the multifaceted expressive possibilities of the oud as a solo and accompanying instrument. As the project title suggests, with the oud as a common thread, Luthopia believes in the “utopia” of reuniting musicians and audiences through music and poetry from different cultural legacies, flourishing within the uniting language of dialogue.

The word “utopia” in its original meaning can be translated as “no place”, from the Greek words οὐ (not) and τόπος (place). In the mystical poetry of 13th Century Persian poet Rumi, “no place” (La mekân) refers to a state of emptiness, where man reunites with the divine.

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