Julien Bernard Jalaleddin Weiss - Ensemble AlKindi

MUSIC IN OTTOMAN COURT PALACE TOPKAPI

Recorded at home of World Cultures in Paris in 2011.

With Al Kindi directed by Julien Jalal Eddin Weiss.

Broadcasted on Mezzo TV.

Julien Jalal Eddin Weiss management and qanun , Dogan Dikmen soloist , Ozer Ozel Ottoman master lute, Refik Kaya master rebab , Prabhu Edouard Indian tabla master .

After thirty years of interpreting the sacred and profane art music of the Arab world , Julien Jalal Eddin Weiss is now devoted to the repertoire of the sublime Ottoman Turkish music of the 15th to 17th centuries , highlighting the instrumental and vocal improvisation : the taqsim and qasida .
Born in Paris to a Swiss mother and Alsatian father, Julien Jalal Eddin Weiss abandons classical guitarist career to study Arabic qanun in 1978 in Cairo and Tunis , Istanbul, Baghdad , Beirut and Aleppo. In 1983 , he founded the instrumental ensemble Al Kindi, with outstanding musicians: Mohamed Saada Tunis Abdessalam Safar Damascus Adel Shams El-Din of Alexandria, Mohamed Qadri Dalal Aleppo , Qadi Amin Ziyad to Damascus, Ozer Ozel of Istanbul, Malik Mansurov Baku Mohamed Gommar Baghdad ...
Since 1990 all Al Kindi has various classical Arabic music programs with renowned singers Loutfi Bouchnak Tunis Husayn Al Azami of Baghdad, Hamza Chakkur Damascus , Sabri Mudallal , Omar Sarmini , and Sheikh Adib Daykh Habboush of Aleppo, Dogan Dikmen Istanbul tropos the choir Athens ... All these events - the whirling Dervishes of Damascus, Aleppo Music Room , Love Poems in Aleppo Bimaristan , the Art of Maqam Baghdad Malouf Tunis etc - as well as its extensive discography provide him worldwide fame . In 2001, Julien Jalal Eddin Weiss was appointed an Officer of Arts and Letters .