PHOTO: © @Lamls Khatch @Roberto Cifarlli

Aeham Ahmad und Alessandro Palmitessa "Ankommen...!? Wie schaffen wir das"

Concerts & Music pop kammermusik jazz live folk worldmusic
Sa, 08. Feb 2025 20:00 - 21:45
Offene-Welt e.V. Köln
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In the organizer's words:

Dear friends, members and supporters,
Following the success of ITALIANA Kulturbrücke am Rhein, Alessandro Palmitessa is continuing this year with new concerts at our center OFFENE WELT e.V. MONDOAPERTO.
On Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 8 p.m., the music event "Music in Open Dialogue" will once again take place in our cultural center:
"Arrive...!? Wie schaffen wir das"
Concert and reading
with Aeham Ahmad (piano, vocals, reading) and
Alessandro Palmitessa (saxophone, clarinet, small percussion)
Attached: the concert poster
(Aeham Ahmad Foto@Lamis Khaateb / Alessandro Palmitessa Foto@Roberto Cifarelli)
Aeham Ahmad grew up as a Palestinian refugee in the Syrian refugee camp Yarmouk in Damascus. He learned to play the piano from the age of five, initially at the conservatory in Damascus, and from 2006 to 2011 he studied at the music faculty of Baath University in Homs. Yarmouk has been fought over by various parties in the civil war since 2013. In the course of warfare, siege and hunger, the population was decimated from 150,000 to 16,000 people in 2015. During this time, he transported his piano on a trailer or pick-up truck and performed on the streets and in public places. Videos of these performances, often with children in the audience, were shared on social media and his story received international media coverage.
After the refugee camp was captured by Islamic State fighters in April 2015, they destroyed his piano during an inspection. In this situation, he decided to leave his home. On August 2, he fled Yarmouk and arrived in Germany via Izmir, Lesbos and the Balkan route in September 2015. In 2015, he received the inaugural International Beethoven Prize for Human Rights, Peace, Freedom, Poverty Reduction and Inclusion in Bonn. He made his first appearances in Germany at a concert for refugees and volunteers in Munich in October 2015 and at a charity concert for the Bochum Refugee Aid organization together with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra. Since then, he has performed many concerts throughout Europe and in Japan, and his autobiography "And the birds will sing" was published at the International Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2017 and has since been translated into several languages. To date, Aeham Ahmad has recorded seven CDs with a wide variety of styles and musicians, with an eighth CD in the works. www.aeham-ahmad.com
The clarinettist, saxophonist and composer Alessandro Palmitessa initially studied jazz and classical saxophone, graduating from the N. Rota Conservatory in Monopoli (Bari/Italy). As a scholarship holder at "Siena Jazz", he subsequently obtained the "High Professional Qualification in Jazz Music and Contemporary Derivation". Palmitessa has won several musical awards and plays in numerous international formations at international jazz festivals. Alessandro Palmitessa has lived in Cologne since 1997. His project "Menschensinfonieorchester", initiated in 2001 with homeless musicians from Cologne, received a lot of media attention after the first CD release (including a report in GEO 2/04) and won the Rheinischer Förderpreis of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung in 2005. In 2024, he played and conducted the Menschensinfonieorchester as part of the Schönberg Gala in the Cologne Philharmonie. However, his activities extend far beyond Cologne: in 2005 and 2007 he toured Europe with the Japanese Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra. Alessandro Palmitessa Banda with Elena Ledda played at the Lanxess Arena Cologne at the "FEST im GLAUBEN" festival in 2013. In 2021/2022 it toured various cities in Germany with the music program: "Deutschlandlieder - Almanya Türküleri" and in 2023 with a part of the film documentary by Nedim Hazar on 3 Sat. The record I don't want your war AFGHANISTAN 1969 was nominated for the 2024 German Record Critics' Award in the category Traditional Ethnic Music. Alessandro Palmitessa is the director of several series of events and has been the director of the Italian festival Kulturbrücke am Rhein in Cologne since 2008.
A unique musical experience that you should not miss out on by reserving a place!
Please reserve by e-mail to both addresses below.
festivalitaliana@googlemail.com
offene-welt@web.de
You will receive confirmation of your reservation with our reply.
Best wishes from our entire team
OFFENE WELT e.V. MONDOAPERTO
ZUGWEG 22 50677 KÖLN SÜDSTADT
Reservation: "Offene Welt e.V."
Chairman: LUCA PAGLIA
E-mail: offene-welt@web.de
www.offene-welt.de
ADMISSION FREE - DONATIONS REQUESTED

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