World Premiere: Untold Elegy – for voice and string quartet

Sandra Levine Theatre in the Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement at Queens University of Charlotte Sunday, April 3, 2022, 3:00 p.m. Christopher James Lees, conductor

Premeiring my quintet: Nomads: The Four Winds, for cello and string quartet.

November 22, 2021 (Monday) — 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Harold Prince Theatre
Penn Live Arts
3680 Walnut Street

In Performance: Thomas Kraines, Cello & Kinan Abou-afach, Cello/Oud.

Live Stream Concert

Impromptu for Cello

Commissioned by Mary Ann Haubenreich
for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

Speak for Orchestra. Performance with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. Concord, NC. Christopher James Lees: Conductor

Speak for Orchestra. Performance with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Christopher James Lees: Conductor

“Speak” Performance with Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Primary Concerts: One Musical Family. Christopher James Lees: Conductor

“Speak” Performance with Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Primary Concerts: One Musical Family. Christopher James Lees: Conductor

Private Event

String Quartet, Performed by The New European Ensemble

NEW EUROPEAN ENSEMBLE plays:
Kinan Abou Afach – Chronicles I (a la Sama’i)
Wassim Ibrahim – Syriac Fantasy
Kareem Roustom – Shades of Night

Podium Grounds Pieter de Hoochweg 125, 3024 BG Rotterdam, Netherlands

Klooster Kerk, Lange Voorhout 4 2514 ED The Hague

A world premiere of the full version of Exodus for brass sextet

The Brass Project:
Theo Van Dyck, trumpet
Brian Olson, trumpet
Cort Roberts, horn
Daniel Schwalbach, trombone
Oliver Barrett, trombone
Jake Fewx, tuba

Transonic Orchestra, featuring Miya Masaoka (koto and electronics), Layale Chaker (violin), Dan Blacksberg (trombone), Gamin Kang (saenghwang and piri), Shinjoo Cho (bandoneon), Nick Millevoi (e-guitar), Kinan Abou-Afach (cello and oud), Adam Vidiksis(electronics and percussion), and Gene Coleman (musical direction). 6:30–7 p.m. / 7:30–8 p.m. / 8:30–9 p.m.

Audio-visual work from John JH Phillips. 7:15–7:30 p.m.

Speak for Orchestra. Performance with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Christopher James Lees: Conductor

Cello Duo with Thomas Kraines | Site/Sound: Revealing the Rail Park festival.
Playing New Woks composed by Thomas Kraines, and mself. 5:30PM & 7:30PM

 
Link to Event

Philadelphia Inquirer Mention

With Tom Kraines (Cello) and Shinjoo Cho (Bandoneon). Site/Sound: Revealing the Rail Park festival

(CANCELED)
Pierre Boulez Saal
Französische Straße 33 D
10117 Berlin

Cello/Oud: Kinan Abou-afach

Piano: Julian Horner

Bass: Dave Brodie

Drums: Jim Hamilton

Guest Percussionist: Ziya Tabassian

“A Letter From Syria will be an evening of music saturated with unique scales, improvisation, and rhythmic grooves, all intermingled with freely constructed jazz. The original pieces within the show are rooted in Abou-afach’s recollections of his homeland Syria before the conflict, expressed through the Middle-Eastern-influenced modes and the rich harmonies of Jazz. In this blending of temporal and aesthetics styles, this music performance looks to the future while paying homage to the past.”

Speak for Orchestra. Performance with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Christopher James Lees: Conductor

Event info:

“On December 7th, 8th and 9th, we will be presenting our fifth theatrical production at the Vittum Theater in Chicago.

Inspired by current events, the show features Assid and Warda, father and daughter Syrian refugees who dream of escape to a Spain where their ancestors once built a different kind of civilization: one grounded in peace, tolerance and the joys of artistic expression. But when a desperate rescue at sea leaves them separated, it seems their refugee journey is destined to end in tragedy.  Can their faith in the possibilities of a better life sustain them through this final, agonizing trial?

Told through the songs and dances of flamenco by a critically acclaimed ensemble of musicians, Rose of Damascus features dancers from Studio Mangiameli, an original script by Benjamin Lumpkin, and artwork by Jim Hajicek.”

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Vittum Theater
1012 N. Noble St.
Chicago, IL 60642

AANM and Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings join forces for an evening of contemporary chamber music by Arab American composers, including Mohammed Fairouz, Kareem Roustom, Michael Ibrahim, Suad Bushnaq, Kinan Abou-afach and Hadi Eldebek.

The Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings performs my piece Fiction, for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Contrabass and Electronics