Early Music Vancouver: Mandinka Pilgrimage feat. Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko, kora
Free ($17.52-$19.95 online / $33.48-$35.88 in person)
Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian — Marayama
Ablaye Cissoko — Denkilo
Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian — Vers Isfahan
Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian — Traversées
Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian — Sirifo
Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian — Départs
Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian — Kailen
Diego Ortiz — Recercada quinta sobre tenores Italianos
Ablaye Cissoko — Djotna
Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian — Tamalà
Ablaye Cissoko — Serigne / Bi Signare
Ablaye Cissoko — Alkalo
Ablaye Cissoko, kora
From the 12th Century up to today, the Griots, known as “the Bards of West Africa”, have transmitted their music and knowledge from generation to generation through a sophisticated and unbroken oral tradition. This concert explores the epics of the Mandinka Kingdom, together with the griot master of the kora, Ablaye Cissoko. Montreal’s Ensemble Constantinople will support Cissoko with their signature flair to create a cosmopolitan sound that blends West Africa with Persia.
The livestream will take place at 7:30pm Pacific.
EMV will send ticket buyers a link to view the concert one hour prior to the start time. Tickets will be available for purchase online until 6:30pm Pacific on September 24th. To purchase tickets after this time, please phone the box office at 604.981.6335.
Livestream tickets: $25 CAD / $19.95 USD ($22 CAD / $17.52 senior age 65+)
Attending in person: If you are purchasing a single ticket to this event, please note that the seat available beside you will NOT be sold to anyone else. It will be taken off-sale to ensure physical distancing.
The concert will take place at:
Kay Meek Arts Centre
1700 Mathers Ave
West Vancouver, BC V7V 2G7
In-person tickets: $45 CAD / $35.88 USD ($42 CAD / $33.48 USD senior age 65+/student with ID)
Link to donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/52057
About Constantinople
Constantinople is a musical ensemble that chose the journey—geographical certainly, but also historical, cultural and inner—as its cornerstone. It draws inspiration from all sources and aims for distant horizons. Inspired by the ancient city illuminating the East and West, Constantinople was founded in 1998 in Montreal by its artistic director, Kiya Tabassian.
Since its founding, the ensemble promotes the creation of new works incorporating musical elements of diverse musical traditions around the world, drawing from medieval manuscripts to a contemporary aesthetic, passing by Mediterranean Europe to Eastern traditions and New World Baroque. Underpinned by a spirit of research and creation, Constantinople has joined forces with leading international artists such as singers Marco Beasley, Françoise Atlan, Savina Yannatou and Suzie Le Blanc; the Mandinka griot Ablaye Cissoko; the Greek ensemble En Chordais, the Belgian duo Belem and the American group The Klezmatics; sarangi virtuoso Dhruba Ghosh, Syrian clarinettist and composer Kinan Azmeh, and Iranian kamancheh master Kayhan Kalhor.
Regularly invited to perform in international festivals and prestigious concert halls, such as the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, the Rencontres musicales de Conques in France, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, the Cervantino Festival in Mexico, the Festival de Carthage in Tunisia, the Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens and the BOZAR in Brussels, Constantinople is acclaimed by the public, music professionals and critics alike. The ensemble has 19 albums to its credit on labels Analekta, Atma, World Village, Buda Musique, MaCase, Glossa, and Dreyer Gaido. Over the past fifteen years, Constantinople has created nearly 50 works and travelled to more than 240 cities in 54 countries.
Kiya Tabassian, setar & Artistic director |
Didem Başar, kanun |
Patrick Graham, percussion |
Tanya LaPerrière, baroque violin & Viola d'amore |
Pierre-Yves Martel, viola da gamba & double bass