Alban Couëffé is a French oud player and musicologist with wide and diversified interests in Western music, Rock and Global Music. He has studied oud with Khaled Ben Yahia in Lyon and Mehmet Emin Bitmez in Turkey, and organized an oud duet with his father. Couëffé came to Taiwan to do fieldwork in 2008 and joined NTU Chinese Orchestra as a player of huqin and ruan. He is living in Taiwan now as a crossover musician as well as researcher and teacher of Arabic music.

The workshop will present a brief overview on the fascinating Arabic music and its instruments. In sessions II, Couëffé will lead a Taksim improvisation and ensemble practice with all the participants.

Date and Time

2020/11/20 (Fri.) 14:20-18:00

Location

Recital Hall, Department of Music, NTNU

162, Section 1, Heping East Road, Da-an Dist., Taipei City

Sessions

14:40-16:10  Arabic Music: Music, Theory, Instruments and Oud (lecture, limited to 80 people)

16:30-18:00  Middle Eastern Taksim Improvisation Workshop (limited to 40 people, Session I registration requested. Please bring a melodic instrument of any kind and a music stand for improvisation practice.)

Registration

The workshop is free and open to everyone interested in Arabic music, but registration is requested.

Online registration is open until 23:59 on November 11, 2020

Book now! https://reurl.cc/q8aDrp

**Priority to members of Taiwan Musicology Society!**

Schedule

14:20-14:40  Preparation and Check-in

14:40-16:10  Arabic Music: Music, Theory, Instruments and Oud (90 min)

16:10-16:30  Break

16:30-18:00  Taksim Improvisation Workshop (90 min)