A concert series in world music and performance in the
Museum Speelklok in Utrecht.
Mark Lotz invites artists from different traditions of the world to
perform music in a gorgeous former church.
An artistic reflection on the Corona era through the many cultures that the Netherlands is rich in. In the days of #BlackLivesMatter and social isolation, let ‘their’ artistic voices be heard!
Corona measures
Do you have a cold or do you have other complaints? Then you can pass your ticket on to someone else or cancel your ticket yourself via the link you received on your ticket.
You are also required to wear a mouth mask in the museum. This can be taken off when you are seated during the concert.
Due to the current lockdown the concerts are moved to September and Oktober. You will receive a new ticket with the new date.
Mark My Wor(l)ds is made possible by the support of the Cultuurfonds (Doe mee met jouw AOW), Gemeente Utrecht, the Stichting Wereldmuziek Utrecht, Kickstart Fonds and the Norma Fonds
Mark Alban Lotz
Soloist, composer, producer in jazz often crossing borders with other cultures. Collaborations spans an arc from Afro-cuban, West African, Indian, Turkish up to Moldavian musical traditions.
Worked with many unknown and many famous but equally gifted unique voices in music all around the globe. To name a few Chris Potter, Don Byron, Han Bennink, Najma Akthar, ‘Anga’ or Ernst Reijseger. Subject of international publications, prize-winner, nominated for the Edison and Beyond Magazine prize. Professor for flute at the Utrecht and Rotterdam Conservatories.
“Mark Lotz is more than just a big voice in the European jazz scene. He is at the forefront of jazz, classical and World Music and is obviously enjoying every minute of it!” (Latin Jazz, USA)
Friday September 17th
Solo act
Jawa Manla (Syria) • oud/vocals
India Calls: Mandala Tribe
Shashwathi Jagadish (India) • vocals
Stefan Schmid (Germany/NL) • keyboard, syntheziser
Heiko Dijker • tabla/vocals
Mark Alban Lotz (Germany) • flutes, Bansuri
Jawa Manla
Born in Aleppo, and grew up in Damascus, Syria. Started playing music at the age of eleven as a daughter of an oud player. Later studied music at Sulhi Al Wadi music institute In Damascus and in Egypt at the “Beit El Oud”, the Arabic Oud House institute under the supervision of the Iraqi Oud player Naseer Shamma. Jawa also received private lessons by the Turkish oud player Nacati Celik in Istanbul in 2014.
Since June 2015, based in the Netherlands and performs with many Dutch and international musicians. She is studying at the conservatory of Codarts, for her Bachelor of music.
Shashwathi Jagadish
Carnatic musician from Chennai, was only five years old when she was inspired to start singing by her grandmother. She started learning Carnatic music formally at the age of seven under the tutelage of Shri Neyveli Ganeshan. Later, she continued her study under the guidance of Smt. Vijaylakshmi Subramaniam and Kalaimamani Smt. Bhushany Kalyanaraman. At present, she is a student of Shri. A K S Murali.
Heiko Dijker
Heiko Dijker is an tabla player, composer whose playing is marked by energy and rhythmic poetry. After years of traditional training in India, he continued to learn with grandmaster Faiyaz Khan in the Guru-Shisya (Master-Disciple) system. Currently Heiko has joined his traditional skills with his electronic production and composition.
Heiko has worked with artists like Shankar Mahadevan, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Meeta Pandit, Purbayan Chatterjee, Melissa Etheridge, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Lavinia Meijer, Rembrandt Frerichs and Ravichandra Kulur.
Stefan Schmid
Pianist, composer, producer in settings ranging from Jazz, Electronic, Pop, Afro Cuban/Salsa, Bossa, Rock, Punk, House, DnB, Techno, Lounge, Free Form Impro. Part of the New Cool Colllective and New Cool Collective Big Band, Caro Emerald and his Guerilla sleaze Duo Hygiene. Together with Lilian Vieira and Stefan Kruger forms the band Zuco 103.
He winner of the Silveren Harp, the Edison award and nominated for the BBC World Music Awards in 2003.
Thursday October 14th
Solo act
Nicole Jordan (Trinidad/Canada)
Africa Calls: Kuyateh/Battacharya/Lotz
Lamin Kuyateh (Gambia) • cora (african harp)/vocals
Sandip Battacharrya (India) • tabla/vocals
Mark Alban Lotz (Germany) • flutes, Bansuri
Nicole Jordan
Nicole Jordan is a Canadian born in Trinidad and Tobago. She is a vocalist, writer, academic and musician now based between Canada, Tobago and The Netherlands. She has performed internationally in opera and chamber music and has created and performed new music theatre productions combining classical music with traditional music, dance, literature and poetry. Nicole’s own theatrical creative work often crosses artistic boundaries to include dance, literature and the visual arts.
Nicole’s work often calls upon her own life stories and Caribbean heritage and spirituality placed in contrast with her lived experiences in Canada and Europe. In 2017 she performed her one-woman show, “Orisha: Goddess of the Wind” for the Nassau Music Society about her personal encounters with the Orisha spiritual tradition.
Sandip Battacharrya
Born and brought up in traditional/musical family in Benaras/India. As a disciple of Pt. Ishwarilal Mishra- Benaras, Pt. Aravind Mulgaonkar- Mumbai and Ustd. Shekh Dawood- Hyderabad.
Over the years, Sandip has performed with musicians like, Ust. Munnauwar Ali Khan, Pt. V.G.Jog, Pandita Lakshmi Shankar, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt. Jashraj, Ust. Shujaat Khan, Pt. Budhaditya Mukherjee, Ust. Shahid Parvez, Pt. Tarun Bhattacharya, Erik Vloiemans, Ernst Reijseger, Erik Varzon Morrel, Mola Syla, Ali D’janrose, Marie Boine.
Sandip has composed music for children theater, documentaries, Ballet dance project and for his ensembles.
Lamin Kuyateh
Koraspeler Jalli Lamin Kuyateh is in 1964 geboren in Gambia en komt uit een griotfamilie. Een griot of Djeli is in West-Afrika een dichter en lofzanger en wordt beschouwd als bewaarder en verteller van mondeling overgebrachte tradities en geschiedenis. Jalli Lamin zingt traditionele liederen, daarnaast schrijft en componeert hij ook zijn eigen songs, die gaan over meer recente geschiedenis, sociale problemen, politiek, het leven, de liefde , oorlog en vrede, speciale mensen en alles wat verder nog voor hem belangrijk is.
Saturday June 26st
Solo act
Gabriel Milliet (Brazil) • guitar/vocals
Brazil Calls
Lilian Vieira (Brazil) • vocals
Daniel ‘Tato’ de Moraes Aguilar (Uruguay) • guitar
Udo Demand (Germany/NL) • percussion
Mark Alban Lotz (Germany) • flutes, Bansuri
Gabriel Milliet
Gabriel Milliet comes from São Paulo, Brazil. Rooted in the rich and diverse Brazilian song-writing tradition, his music emanates from the inherent loneliness of being an immigrant and aims to build an intimate moment we can all share. The emotional simplicity of Musica Caipira (a genre from the Brazilias southeastern region), and the cosmopolitan freedom so present in the music of Clube da Esquina (a group of composers from Minas Geraes) are two tangible and audible influences in Gabriel soundscape.
Lilian Vieira
Lilian Vieira is geboren in Teresopolis, Brazilië en groeide op in een familie van traditionele musici, waar samba muziek het middelpunt was.
Sinds woont Lilian 1989 in Nederland en participeerde in tal van cross-over projecten waar Brazilianse muziek zich mengt met soul en pop en projecten waar Braziliaanse muziek centraal stond. Lilian werkt als componist en zanger in Bacan, Angra, Cariopa, Lilian Vieira Grupo, Zuco 103 en in samenwerkingen met onder meer Sfeq, Banda Macaco ( Spanje), , Lotz Of Music, Amparanoia (Spanje), Joe Jackson, Drive Like Maria en Candy Dulfer. In de Nederlandse theaters nam zij onder meer deel aan producties zoals de Female Factory Brasil Beyond the Bundas. Ze werkte als actrice in de serie 9 dagen va de Gier.
Udo Demandt
Udo is opgegroeid in Siegen (Duitsland) in een muzikaal gezin met Popmuziek, Volksmuziek, Mars. Hij speelt in talloze formaties van Werledmuziek / Pop / Jazz en is een specialisat in Braziliaanse en Spaanse ( Flamenco-) muziek. Udo speelde o.a. met het Metropole Orkest, BvR Flamenco Bigband, Lilian Vieira Grupo, Magda Mendes, Fernando Lameirinhas.
Daniel de Moraes Aguilar
Born into a musical family in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, guitarist Daniel de Moraes Aguilar was exposed to a wide range of music from a young age. He spent his childhood in Cuba, where he started playing classical guitar. After returning to Uruguay, popular music like Candombe, Tango and Bossa Nova became his main musical focus of interest. Before long he was playing, recording and touring with many prominent Uruguayan artists such as Ruben Rada (Grammy winner 2011) and Jorge Drexler (Oscar winner 2005).
Daniel performed with some of the top musicians in the Netherlands and abroad like Ivan Lins, Manou Gallo, Bløf, Eric Vloeimans, Fernando Lameirinhas, Lilian Vieira just to mention a few.
Saturday December 12th • Sold Out!
Solo act
Hamid Reza Behzadian (Iran) • Indian slide guitar/harmonica
Orient Calls
Jaber Fayad (Syria) • ud
Modar Salama (Syria) • percussion
Rogier Telderman (The Netherlands) • piano
Mark Alban Lotz (Germany) • flutes, Bansuri
Hamid Reza Behzadian
Hamid Reza Behzadian is een Iraanse muzikant, die zich heeft ontwikkeld tot slide gitarist en harmonica player in verschillende muziekstijlen. Zijn muziek kenmerkt zich door de invloeden van zijn Perzische roots, Midden-Oosten melodieën en zijn eerste inspiratiebron,de Amerikaanse Blues. Door kennismaking met de Indiase slide gitaar, besloot hij de richting van Indiase muziek te kiezen. Hij studeert dit jaar af aan Codarts te Rotterdam in World Music. In samenwerking met verschillende muzikanten en in zijn solo-programma brengt hij een muzikale reis ten gehore waarbij hij tradities van oost en west met elkaar verbindt.
Jaber Fayad
Jaber Fayad is an Oud player and composer from Syria. He graduated from the Conservatorium of Damascus in 2015, Master student at Codarts 2020, focusing on Contemporary Solo Oud performance. He studied Azerbaijani music with Master Askar Ali Akbar, Arabic music with Master Issam Rafea. and Ottoman music with master Ayman Jesry, and he did many workshops with Ottoman music masters like Mehmet Bitmez.
Jaber plays traditional and modern, Arabic, Azerbaijani, and Ottoman music and focuses on crossover the Oud with Classical music, and Flamenco.
Jaber has been 5 years in Holland and he played with many different Dutch ensamples like Asko Schönberg, and recently with Nederlands Blazers Ensemble.
Modar Salama
Modar Salama is a drummer and percussionist, born in Damascus. He studied percussion in Damascus and started to build his career as a drummer. He played with the Syrian National Orchestra, the Syrian Big Band and many other international projects in China, Jordan, Malaysia, Tunisia, Austria, Germany, Lebanon, Denmark and Egypt.
Modar worked in the field of Music Theatre, performing a huge number of plays in Syria and the Arabic world. He is now working on a number of projects as an Arabic percussion player and drummer and he is creating his own style influenced by the soul of the Orient.
Rogier Telderman
TELDERMAN wordt gezien als een muzikaal fenomeen waarvoor geen grenzen gelden. Hij weet op een uiterst originele manier invloeden uit de jazz, klassiek en pop te versmelten tot een volstrekt eigen stijl. Dat is hoorbaar op zijn wereldwijd bejubelde debuutalbum Contours dat in 2015 uitkwam. Maar hij gaat net zo makkelijk verbindingen aan met topmusici als Thomas Strønen, Petros Klampanis, Nik Bärtsch en Tuur Florizoone.
De pianist wordt vooral geroemd om zijn prachtige melodielijnen, en zijn virtuoze, organische pianospel. Met violist Adam Baldych en cellist Vincent Courtois bracht hij in september 2020 het album Clouds uit op het gerenommeerde Duitse label ACT Music.
