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Kinan Azmeh
Clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh has been hailed as “intensely soulful” and a “virtuoso” by The New York Times and “spellbinding” by The New Yorker. He has gained international recognition for what the CBC has called his “incredibly rich sound” and distinctive compositional voice across diverse musical genres.
Originally from Damascus, Syria, Azmeh brings his music to all corners of the world as a soloist, composer, and improviser. Dawning, a double concerto for clarinet, violin, and orchestra co-composed with violinist Layale Chaker, was premiered in by co-commissioners, Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic with the composers as soloists.
Azmeh has appeared as a soloist with many of the leading orchestras and conductors throughout the world.
He has shared the stage with such musical luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim, Marcel Khalife, Aynur and Jivan Gasparian, John McLaughlin, and Fra