workshop Canticum Canticorum – Song of Songs
Marseille, 18 and 19 September 2013
The start of an intense collaboration between two very different ensembles, each famous in its own right: Latvijas Radio Koris, bringing perfection in vocal art, and Ensemble Sarband, mediating between past and present, Early Music and living tradition, Orient and Occident. Eight composers from Europe and the Near-Orient have been asked to write music for this exciting combination, based on the ancient text of Song of Songs. The new works will be created in several ‘laboratory’ workshops where all participants – singers, instrumentalists, composers – will collaborate on creating a new, unique sound. The first meeting of the ensembles and the composers took place during Tenso Days Marseille 2013 in two sessions open to the audience.
The results of the workshop will be performed during Tenso Days Riga 2014.
Bushra El-Turk and Kaspars Putniņš
Santa Ratniece and Toivo Tulev
Latvijas Radio Koris
conductor Kaspars Putniņš
Ensemble Sarband
artistic leader Vladimir Ivanoff 
Mustafa Dogan Dikmen (Turkey) – voice, ney, percussion
Sokrates Sinopoulos (Greece) – politiki lira
Salah Eddin Maraqa (Jordan) – qanun
Vladimir Ivanoff (Bulgaria) – percussion, lutes
composers
Vladimir Ivanoff (Bulgaria)
Zad Moultaka (Lebanon / FR)
Santa Ratniece (Latvia)
Lasse Thoresen (Norway)
Toivo Tulev (Estonia)
Bushra El-Turk (Lebanon / UK)
Martins Viļums (Latvija)