Past Events - MARIE FIKRY SOLO PIANO: ORIENTAL, FLAMENCO, WORLDJAZZ

Event

Title:: MARIE FIKRY SOLO PIANO: ORIENTAL, FLAMENCO, WORLDJAZZ
When:: 22.11.2018 at 20.00 h
Style:: Worldjazz
Price:: 15€ (10€ for students under 26 and jobseekers)
Reservation:: Send us a mail

Description

MARIE FIKRY
SOLO PIANO
ORIENTAL, FLAMENCO, WORLDJAZZ

Pianist and composer Marie Fikry has been called “a rising star of belgian
jazz” by Michel Preumont. She creates original, exciting, and highly
personal music, which was described as “borderless". Her pianistic work is
mainly focused on the dialogue between European jazz and traditional music
of North Africa. Trained with such masters as Nathalie Loriers, Stephane
Galland, Christophe Wallemme, Kris Defoor at the Koninklijk Conservatorium
van Brussel, she has appeared in countless occasions in the belgian jazz
landscape : collaboration, live, radio, or discography publications... In
2016, she founded her own quartet : “Oriental Jazz Project” and was
recognized as a “promising young talent to be followed” by the province of
Liège. This project was the starting point of her interest by mixing many
types of Oriental percussions and traditional rhythms, with the sound of a
piano jazz trio.
Passionate about composition and Oriental rhythms, she specialised for two
years in South Indian rhythms and arabic music. In 2018, she signed her
first album “Proche Orience" at the label “Homerecords”, album is entirely
made of her compositions between Jazz and traditional Arabic music,
tribute to her Moroccan origins. In piano solo, she offers a repertoire of
original composition built around complex narrations and very elaborate
grooves...