In collaboration with the Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, the first concert conceived by the study group maqām Beyond Nation – the result of a peculiar research thread dedicated to a musical repertoire stretching from North Africa to Central Asia (maqamproject.uk ) – will be staged. The group is the winner of an ERC-UKRI Award shared between the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, under the coordination of Giovanni De Zorzi. The Ensemble Nasim-e Tarab, conducted by Saeid Kordmafi, has been invited from Iran especially
for the occasion. The concert, organised as a typical suite of Persian art music, will focus on original Kordmafi compositions from the nearby Middle Eastern and Central Asian traditions of maqām.