New Album ‘Finding home’ out now!
Her project ‘‘Syrian Dreams” is her own way to fight the conflict that destroys her country. She relates…
‘The war started in my homeland in 2011. From that point on making music was no longer a choice, it was a crucial means to express and come to terms with intense feelings of loss and sadness from seeing my people suffer and my homeland destroyed. ‘
Accompanied by percussion and cello, she performs music lamenting the war in her homeland and celebrating its rich cultural and architectural heritage. Following the release of her highly-praised debut album Syrian Dreams last November, she performs her own compositions, tunes from the Syrian folk tradition and the wider Arabic repertoire in what the Guardian describes as: ‘an often exquisite, emotional set that constantly changes mood, from sorrow to hope
TERRITORIES GERMANY SWITZERLAND AUSTRIA AND ON REQUEST
TOURDATES
2023:
20.09.22 AT -Dornbirn
21.09.23-AT-Innsbruck TBC
22.09.23-CH-Zürich
26.03.22-UK-Bradford-on-avon-Finding Home Festival
02.04.22-UK-Oxford-St.Barnabas Church
08.04.22-UK-Sheffield-Firth Court
09.04.22-UK-London-Wasteland Festival
10.04.22-UK-Leeds-Howard Assembly Room
20.04.22-UK-Bristol-St.George’s Bristol
26.04.22-UK-Milton Keynes-The Stables
19.05.22-UK-Fingringhoe-Roman River Music
22.05.22-UK-London-Kings Place
09.06.22-UK-Percy’sLane-The National Centre for Early Music
11.06.22-UK-Manchester-RNCM
15.06.22-FR-Lille-Lille Opera
09.07.22-DE-TFF -Rudolstadt- tbc
Videos
Line Up
Travelparty: 4 – 5
Booking Territory: GAS
Quartett
Maya Youssef: Qanun
Elizabeth Nott : percussion
Mikele Montolli: double base
Shirley Smart: cello
Al McSween: piano /synth
Maya Youssef Trio
- Maya Youssef (kanoun)
- Elizabeth Nott (perc)
- Barnabas Morse-Brown (vlc)
Photos
Press Reviews
https://mayayoussef.com/press/
“Without words, ‘Syrian Dreams’ speaks of the victory of beauty over death”
– Hanni Bode (The German Record Critics’ Award)
She plays as revolution, she plays as rejuvenation, she plays for peace, she plays to heal and she plays to remember.” Outline Magazin
“I challenge anyone to listen to this album and not to weep and in weeping, turn their face to gaze at the stars”
Suhayl Saadi