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Performance: Amir ElSaffar
Sat, Apr 03
|New York
Accessible outdoors—performance by Amir ElSaffar, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Farideh Sakhaeifar: You are in the war zone.
Time & Location
Apr 03, 2021, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
New York, 168 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002, USA
About the Event
Join us on Saturday, April 3 at 5-6 pm ET, for a performance by Amir ElSaffar at Trotter&Sholer, 168 Suffolk St, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10002. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibitionFarideh Sakhaeifar: You are in the war zone.
Composer, trumpeter, santur player, and vocalist Amir ElSaffar has been described as “uniquely poised to reconcile jazz and Arabic music,” (the Wire) and “one of the most promising figures in jazz today” (Chicago Tribune). A recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a 2018 US Artist Fellow, ElSaffar is an expert trumpeter with a classical background, conversant not only in the language of contemporary jazz but has created techniques to play microtones and ornaments idiomatic to Arabic music that are not typically heard on the trumpet.
Performance can be seen, heard, and experienced from the outside. Up to five people will be allowed inside the…