“INSIDE SPACES” – A NEW WORK FROM AMIR ELSAFFAR & LORENZO BIANCHI-HOESCH Revered composer/trumpeter Amir ElSaffar fuses elements of traditional Middle Eastern modal music and American jazz to create a mesmerizing sonic hybrid. Amir El Saffar spent a week in residency at PS21 with the Paris-based electronics composer/performer, Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch. Lorenzo and Amir first worked together at the Royaumount Foundation in France in 2016 as part of a project called 99 with Franco-Lebanese rapper Marc Nammour. In 2018, the two musicians worked on “Luminiscencia,” Amir ElSaffar’s project combining Flamenco, maqam, and electronics, and last year they collaborated with the Italian dance company, MK Dance in a work entitled “Maqam.”

Their new duo project has been in the works for over two years and will premiere at our blackbox theater on Sunday, October 30 at 5 pm. Join us for a glass of wine, cider and donuts after the concert.