Maurice’s Dreams

Pianists Boran Zaza and Michel-Alexandre Broekaert explore cultural dialogue, cross-border friendships, and emotions through music from France, Kurdistan, Armenia, Lebanon, and Turkey, promising exotic harmonies and stories with distant and fragrant sounds.

Boran Zaza, piano
Michel-Alexandre Broekaert, piano

Program

Part I — Around Maurice Ravel
Overture from L’Adorable Bel-boul (Jules Massenet)
‘Le jardin féerique’ from Ma mère l’Oye (Maurice Ravel)
Nocturne No. 3 in A flat major (Gabriel Fauré)

Part II — Around Maurice Ghanem
Winter Morning in Istanbul (Fazil Say)
Gulek Ji Gulekê Re [A Flower for a Flower] (Brahim Shexo)
Seyran (Komitas / Maurice Ghanem)
Stargazing (Maurice Ghanem)
3 miniatures: Day at the Museum / Into the Book / Dance from the Highlands (Maurice Ghanem)
Toccata (Aram Khachaturian)
Dance from the Levant Lands (Maurice Ghanem)