Zad Moultaka
It is at the junction of two worlds that the music of Zad Moultaka, a French-Lebanese composer, is to be found. Trained in the rigour of Western writing (he notably graduated from the Conservatoire national supérieur de Paris), but intrinsically linked to his roots and traditional Arabic music, for the last several years he has been pursuing research on language, integrating the specific features of these two cultures. This research questions history, memory, the contemporary world, explores limits, tensions, and touches on several fields of experimentation. The slow maturation of a unique form of expression gave birth, in 2003, to a series of works whose production has gradually been amplified and in many areas. From choral music to ensemble music, from chamber music to solo vocal music, from electro-acoustics to sound installations and choreography. Two facets of his work will be presented in Avignon: his writing for instrument and voice, with the premiere of The Other Bank, and his foray into dance with the deeply moving No.