LIVE AT THE MILL
Music & Word
Jean Francois Vrod Trio with Yves Bergeret (poet)
Friday 25 May 2007, 8:30pm
As part of a Spring Series of unique events featuring
world-class traditional musicians,
the Weaving Mill will be hosting
an evening of traditional French music and poetry
The highly acclaimed Jean Francois Vrod Trio (violins and percussion)
will be accompanied by the poet Yves Bergeret
for this one-night only event.
Tickets for this event are £5, a drink and finger-food included.
Available in advance as from Monday 21st, from the Weaving Mill (Tel. 22 762275)
and from the Moufflon Bookshop in Nicosia (Tel 22 665155).
Jean Francois Vrod (violin) was born on 29 March 1959 in Chatou. Captured by the spirit of folk music, he frequented the Paris folk club ‘Le Boudon’ towards the end of his adolescent years, and started teaching himself the violin. In 1981 he formed the group Café-Charbons with Marc Anthony and Dominique Paris and together they toured around the world for a whole decade. He later started to explore the transformations in music of the oral tradition that had rural origins and is now confronted with an urban environment. He writes frequently and gives seminars on this very subject. He recorded a solo album for the Five Planets label in 1998, (awarded Diapason d’or 2000 and Choc le Monde de la Musique, November 2000). Since 2000 he has been giving an increasing number of concerts and between 1984 and 2003 he has participated in or completed over 20 recordings.
Frédéric Aurier (violin) was born in 1976 in Auvergne. At an early age he began to study the violin at the Conservatory of Clemont-Ferrand. He was just 14 years old when he met Jean Francois Vrod, a meeting that led him to explore both traditions of classical and folk music. He is the founding member of the Satie Quartet, with whom he plays in France and abroad in a number of prestigious halls and festivals.
Sylvain Lemêtre (zarb) grew up in a musical family, where he discovered the richness of the world of sound. He pursued his studies at the National Conservatory of the Region of Rueil-Malmaison, winning first prizes in percussion and chamber music. He also studied traditional mandingues and afro-cuban percussion at the National School of Music of Argenteuil, again winning first prizes. Working with Jean Francois Vrod he explores further the world of improvisation and of the traditional French violin.
Yves Bergeret (poet), born in 1948, lives in Paris and in La Drome. Since 1978 his published poems and prose have explored places in turmoil, young mountains, rebel deserts, unstable archipelagos, villages in Sahel. His research leads to books as well as performances and to installations in which he loves to involve other artistic genres. It is thus that he has created painted poems on paper or tissue up to 6 by 10 metres, works always realized in public and presented in large open spaces. Yves Bergeret also gives lecture-performances.
LIVE AT THE MILL
Music & Word
Ross Daly Ensemble & Matina Moschovi
Wednesday 2 May 2007, 8:30pm
As part of a unique Spring Series of events featuring world-class Traditional and Jazz artists, Ross Daly and Matina Moschovi will be visiting Cyprus shores for a one-night only performance at the Weaving Mill on Wednesday 2 May at 8:30pm for an evening of traditional Oriental music and poetry. Daly will be joined by Kelly Toma (lyra), Pereklis Papapetropoulos (saz) and Solis Barkis (percussion).
Tickets for this event are £10, a drink and finger-food included, available in advance from the Weaving Mill and from the Moufflon Bookshop in Nicosia.
Finger-food will be provided by Abu Faysal.
A master multi-instrumentalist, Ross Daly has repeatedly teamed with master musicians from all over the world working within the musical discipline of the Eastern traditions while at the same time freely exploring new forms and creative improvisation. A virtuoso of Eastern musical instruments, he plays the Cretan lyra, Afghan rabab, laouto, kemence, sarangi, oud, saz and tanbur. A unique composer, Ross Daly, builds his compositions around the subtle but powerful interaction between the sound textures of the various traditions he has studied. His close personal relationship with the musicians he works with is of paramount interest to Ross Daly himself as he believes that it is this inner connection that brings music to life. The unique sound of his music reflects his personal philosophy influenced by the Sufi tradition which stresses the sacred nature of music itself, the enormous power contained within it, and the necessity for those who concern themselves with it to unreservedly and selflessly give themselves to it. This process results in an experience of music of a transcendental and spiritual nature, equally shared by musicians and audience alike.
The poet Matina Moschovi was born in Piraeus. She studied phonetics, song and histrionics, finishing the Pelou Katseli Drama School with honours. Matina has worked with almost all the regional theatres in Greece as a stage director. At the Thessaloniki film festival she received an award for her performance in Taki Spetsioti’s film ‘Korakia’, which was based on Emmanuel Roides’s short story ‘The Lament of the Gravedigger’. She has also produced a number of literary programmes on Hellenic Radio. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications and a recent composition was presented at the Treasury of the Greek Language in Acropolis. Matina lives and works in Athens, and also lectures in Greece and Luxembourg.