Festival & Workshop
It is a cultural event dedicated to the different expressions of music that combines high quality programming with an educational project led by international teachers.
The objectives of the workshop, held during the days of the festival, are to spread jazz music and its different forms of expression through live performances and teaching.
In the evenings, world-renowned artists take turns on stage at the Old Port's Piazza delle Feste, reconfirming Gezmataz's desire to bring the best of the international jazz scene to Genoa.
Over the years Gezmataz Festival & Workshop has hosted, among others, the likes of Pat Metheny, Steve Coleman, Joshua Redman, Dave Holland, Avishai Cohen, Esperanza Spalding, Steve Swallow, Carla Bley, Bill Frisell, Gary Burton, Ornette Coleman, Dave Douglas, Cassandra Wilson, John Scofield, Andy Sheppard, Brad Mehldau, Gianluca Petrella managing to obtain the contribution and patronage of public and private entities.
The programming of the Gezmataz Festival & Workshops is closely linked to an intense educational activity carried out by means of workshops, ensemble music lessons and concert performances by the participants of the courses on the Feast Square.
The “Telling Jazz” photography workshop aims to provide the technical and compositional tools for a personal interpretation and narration of the GEZMATAZ festival in Genoa, thus enabling each student to develop his or her own mode of expression and improve technique. Photographers will be able to follow all stages of its realization, from soundcheck to performance, consistent with the artists' arrangements on stage.
In particular, the workshop will cover the following topics: What it means to photograph music and jazz How to move during shooting sessions: respect for the artists and the audience Great jazz photographers: viewing and discussion of images preparatory to photo sessions Viewing, analyzing and discussing shots taken at concerts and selecting the most representative shots
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continues the path begun in recent years, focusing on the fusion of cultures and connections
and admixture among different peoples. The watchword for this edition will be Rawabet, which in Arabic
means “connections”: a sound and cultural bridge between musicians and different communities, built around
the themes of identity, migration and intercultural dialogue.
In fact, special attention will be paid to Middle Eastern cultures, thanks to the international project
supported by the European Union's Creative Europe program, of which the Gezmataz Festival is a part, which
aims to explore how jazz unites different cultures, also strong on the migration process and
what it brings with it. The Rawabet project is spearheaded by Ettijahat - Independent Culture
(Beirut/Brussels) and is carried out in partnership with CNCM VOCE (Pigna, France), Gezmataz (Genoa,
Italy), Coculture (Berlin, Germany), Masahat for Arab Culture in Exile (Oslo, Norway) and Transversal
Project (Malmö, Sweden).
The two concerts will be held on July 5 and 6 in Piazza delle Feste (Old Port) with free admission.
- July 5: Je t'appelle quartet, formed by Bayan Rida (oud and voice), Marco Tindiglia (guitar),
Salah Namek (cello) and Marco Fadda (percussion). It will explore, through
music, the difficulty born of the urgency to leave one's war-torn country, in
this case Syria, in a journey of nostalgia, disorientation and hope.
- July 6: Estuarium Quartet, formed by Oriol Marès (clarinet), Talal Fayad (oud), Thodoris
Ziarkas (double bass) and Lucas Zegrí (percussion). The group, with musicians of
international renown, offers compositions that arise from the cultural backgrounds of the different
members, thus with Spanish, Syrian and Greek influences intersecting in a close
dialogue between cultures.
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