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Spotlight: Kinan Azmeh

Hailed as a “virtuoso” and "intensely soulful" by the New York Times and "spellbinding" by the New Yorker, Syrian-born, Brooklyn-based, genre-bending composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh has been touring the globe with great acclaim as a soloist, composer, and improviser. He has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim, John McLaughlin, and Djivan Gasparian, among others and leads his own bands Hewar and Kinan Azmeh CityBand. He is a Silkroad Ensemble artist with whom he won a Grammy in 2016. His recent orchestral album Uneven Sky won Germany’s OpusKlassik Award in 2019.

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