Fahmi Alqhai, 'A Piacere'

Fahmi Alqhai offers this viola da gamba concert at the Palau March in Palma within the XLIV Festival Internacional de Música de Deià.

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 XLIV Deià International Music Festival is held from June 2 to September 29 with concerts at its various venues: Son Marroig (Deià), Sineu, Sa Bassa Rotja (Porreres) and Palau March (Palma). This year the Caló de s'Oli auditorium in Ibiza is also incorporated with a benefit concert for APNEEF. The pianist Alfredo Oyágüez Montero is its artistic director.