Fahmi Alqhai, 'A Piacere'

Fahmi Alqhai offers this viola da gamba concert as part of the third edition of the Sineu Classical Music Festival.

Alqhai is considered one of the most important viola da gamba players in the world, as well as one of the greatest renovators of the interpretation of ancient music. Born in Seville in 1976, of a Syrian father and a Palestinian mother, he spent the first eleven years of his life in Syria, where he began his musical training.

He began his career as a soloist in 1998, specializing in the German viola da gamba repertoire, and in 2002 he founded the Accademia del Piacere, together with soprano Mariví Blasco.

A Piacere Program:

Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710)
Marizápalos y Canarios

Tobias Hume (1569-1645)
Captain Hume Pavin
Captain Hume Galliard

Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Le Badinage
L´Arabesque
Les voix humaines
La Guitare

Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745)
Chacona La Morangis ou La Plissay

Anonymous - Fahmi Alqhai
Variaciones sobre El cant dels ocells

Fahmi Alqhai
Variaciones sobre un tema de Joe Satriani

Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
Purple Haze

The festival is organized by the Sineu City Council and the Department of Culture of the Consell de Mallorca, with the collaboration of the Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics, Cadena Ser and the Deià International Music Festival. Program a total of five concerts, which are held in the cloister of the old Sant Francesc convent, a building built between 1688 and 1704 and the seat of the Sineu City Council since 1877.