caravansary
artists and musicians
caravansary
has contacts with a number of artistist and musician, with
haunting exotic music playing the darbukkas and Ney's (reed
flute) are available to perform in festivals, concerts, any
public events, also to teach. Please contact Nihat on 0794 44 89 527 for further details.
| Caravansary
Music |
 An
exciting contemporary ensemble playing haunting Sufi and
eastern music - with violin, voice, and ney (reed flute)
weaving through thunderous frame-drums and darbuka. The music with a style both traditional
and experimental, with middle-eastern instruments create a
unique and passionate devotional music.
They are working towards their first CD.
Contact 079444 89 527 for events. |
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| Lennie Charles |
 Lennie was born in Dominica and came to London at the age of 8yrs. Since leaving a professional career as a dancer lennie has concentred his work within the community arts sector, helping and encouraging children and young people to find and discover their creative path. Since 2004 Lennie has been Associate Director with In Toto Theatre.
Lennie started playing violin at 12 after two short years gave it up for guitar which was a bit more cool but equally demanding. On finishing his career as a dancer lennie turned once again to music, this time he turned his attention towards the Cello all those years listening to Classical music at ballet school and class gave him an appreciation for the music. More on Lennie Charles |
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| Ahmed Mukhtar |
|  Ahmed Mukhtar was born 1969 in Baghdad and has played the Oud and Arabic percussion since 1979. He has worked with many folk music groups and musicians in Baghdad.
He studied Oud and percussion with the masters Ganim Hadad and Jameel Jerjis and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. Ahmed has worked with Arabic orchestras and performed on TV with several Iraqi groups. He went on to study Oud and Western percussion at the High Institute of Music in Damascus. Later he studied at the London College of Music. More on Ahmed Mukhtar |
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| Vida Kashizadeh |
 Vida Kashizadeh was born in Abadan in south-west Iran. Her father played tonbak and tar and from an early age she studied accordion, percussion and wrote poetry. The family moved to Tehran when she was 11 and she later went to study in Germany. She first came to Britain in 1977 and started a family, but excited by the possibilities of the Iranian revolution in 1979, she returned home. As the new regime became more rigid and fundamentalist, she was forced to leave again and returned to Britain. More on Vida Kashizadeh |
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| Simona Jovic |
 Simona
Jovic is a dancer, a singer
and comedian. She specialised in Rrom dances,
more well known as « Gipsy » dances. Simona
has Serbian and Czech origins. She grew up in the Former
Yugoslavia surrounded during her childhood with Romany culture.
This culture will become her passion and her struggle, in
other words, her reason to live. She leaves Serbia-and-Montenegro
in 1999 to settle down in France. She can travel in order
to meet Roma people from all around the world. More on Simona Jovic |
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| Nihavend Ensemble |
 Nihavend
Ensemble is a London-based classical Turkish music group formed in
2000 by Cahit Baylav. The aim of the group is to promote this
invaluable clasic music by presenting fine examples of it
in live concerts to audiences here in Britain. They have performed
in a number concerts and festivals. More on Nihavend Ensemble |
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| Munise Unver |
 Munise Unver came to the
UK
in 1968 because two of her English students decided that they wanted to
continue their classes in the
UK
, and asked Unver what they
should do. "We have an expression, 'Whether you stay here, or
whether you take me there it makes no difference, but I was joking, and
they took me seriously!" Planning only to stay six months, and then
only a year, Unver married and has lived in
London
ever since. More on Munise Unver
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| Paul Cheneour |
 Music was the one language that spoke directly to my heart. Then, at 19 years of age, a friend introduced me to the concert flute. Picking it up and feeling it was like coming home. Luckily, since then I have been playing professionally, in many different styles: Classical, Jazz, Fusion, Arab, Indian, now also on Ney flutes, and my own ‘pan cultural’ or ‘world fusion’ style. More on Paul Cheneour |
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