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SILKROAD PRESENT S
WITHIN
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Loeb Playhouse
We’re back—again!
Welcome to Part Two of the Purdue Convocations season. As promised, we’re bringing
you our lineup of in-theatre shows for the Spring 2022 semester. It has been so gratifying
OUR MISSION to see how you have embraced our creative approach to keeping the performing arts a
Purdue Convocations catalyzes the curriculum, energizes the community and vital part of the Purdue experience—and you should know that we couldn’t have done
distinguishes Purdue through powerful performances, illuminating discourse it without you. Your attendance and your support have been central to our success! The
and extraordinary learning encounters. Staging Our Future campaign is the vehicle that enables us to boldly deliver this rich
cultural mix, just for you. If you haven’t already done so, please consider making a gift or
OUR HISTORY renewing your support to Convos. Here’s what your gift will do right now:
Purdue University has a rich history of bringing concerts, lectures and
performances to campus. In 1902, the “Lecture and Concert Course” was first
offered, creating the earliest iteration of what is now Purdue Convocations. Over
the years, the names and formats have changed, but one thing has remained
constant: the desire to expand the Purdue experience beyond the classroom.
THE CAMPAIGN FOR
ACT I
Create Capacity
Without a traditional renewal campaign in the spring of 2020 or a large-scale season in
2020-2021, we still need your help to rebuild our capacity. You’ll get great shows in return.
ACT II
Program Powerful Work
Great shows, world-class artists, powerful themes and thoughtful discourse all
require support; very few performances are built on box-office success alone.
You’ll get an incredibly diverse selection of performances.
ACT III
Catalyze Student Learning
Connections to curricula, learning communities and student organizations
are vital components of comprehensive residential education.
You’ll get the satisfaction of enriching Purdue’s learning environment.
ACT IV
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Our community is a destination because of the incredible concentration
of riches here, and Convos plays a powerful role in that dynamism.
You get to live in a culturally rich, inspiring community.
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DON’T MISS OUR FINAL SPRING 2022 PERFORMANCES!
April 19
Elliott Hall of Music
H E F O U R SEASON S
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with
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April 21
Elliott Hall of Music Super Yamba Band
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April 28
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Saturday, April 9, 2022 / Loeb Playhouse / 8pm
HOME WITHIN
SILKROAD PRESENT S
Special Thanks to our Performance Partners
JEANNE COMPTON
ENDOWMENT FOR
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE ENDOWMENT
Purdue Convocations is grateful for the generous support provided by our
partners to make incredible performances possible in our community.
Silkroad Ensemble Presents: Kinan Azmeh
Home Within Creator & Composer | Clarinet
Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh was trained in his
native Damascus and is a graduate of New York’s
Juilliard School and the City University of New
Home Within is an emotional accounting of home in a time of conflict. An York. He has won international acclaim as a
audio-visual performance conceived by Syrian composer and clarinetist composer, performer, improviser, and recording
Kinan Azmeh and Syrian Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad, the result artist in a wide range of musical genres. His
is an impressionistic reflection on the unity of loss, longing, and the impact discography includes three albums with his
of tragedy on our sense of ‘home’. Rather than follow a narrative, the artists ensemble HEWAR; soundtracks for film and dance; a duo album with pianist
document ‘home’ within specific moments in Syria’s recent history, using Dinuk Wijeratne; and an album with his New York Arabic/Jazz quartet.
the counterpoint between image and sound to establish a sense of sustained Azmeh also champions the contemporary music of Syria as artistic director
urgency and continued hope for both their homeland and communities of the Damascus Festival Chamber Music Ensemble.
around the world.
Home Within was originally created as a duo commission in response the the
Syrian crisis in 2013; over a decade later, the work is taking on new life as a Kevork Mourad
large-scale collaboration with the Silkroad Ensemble, featuring its creators Creator | Visual Art
Kinan Azmeh and Kevork Mourad alongside fellow ensemble artists Layale Kevork Mourad was born in Kamechli, Syria. Of
Chaker (violin), Shawn Conley (bass), Karen Ouzounian (cello), Issam Rafae Armenian origin, he received an MFA from the
(oud), and Shane Shanahan (drums/percussion). Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts and now lives and
works in New York. His past and current projects
include the Cirène project with members of
Brooklyn Rider at the Metropolitan Museum of
About Silkroad
Art, the multimedia play Lost Spring (2015) with
As a social-impact organization and home to a Grammy Award-winning Anaïs Alexandra Tekerian, at the MuCEM, Gilgamesh (2003) and Home Within
musical ensemble, Silkroad works to inspire collaboration in innovative (2013) with Kinan Azmeh in Damascus and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art,
ways that add more equity and justice into the world through the power of among others, Lembit Beecher’s I Have No Stories to Tell You, commissioned
the arts. by Opera Philadelphia, Master Peter’s Puppet Show (2015) with The Knights
at Tanglewood, and Barbed Wire (2015), with Issam Rafea, commissioned by
Yo-Yo Ma conceived Silkroad in 1998, recognizing the historical Silk Road as a The Space, UK.
model for radical cultural collaboration—for the exchange of ideas, tradition,
and innovation across borders. In an innovative experiment, he brought
together musicians from the lands of the Silk Road to co-create a musical
language founded in difference, thus creating the foundation of Silkroad:
Layale Chaker
Violin
both a touring ensemble comprised of world-class musicians from all over
the globe and a social-impact organization working to make a positive Lebanese violinist and composer Layale
impact across borders through the arts. Today, under the leadership of Chaker debuted her musical training at the
Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens, Silkroad leads social impact initiatives National Higher Conservatory of Beirut in her
and educational programming alongside the creation of new music by the native Lebanon. She later pursued her musical
Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble. For more information, please studies at Conservatoire de Paris and the
visit Silkroad.org. Royal Academy of Music in London, and her
doctoral degree at Ecole des Hautes Etudes in
Paris. She has appeared as a soloist, performer, improviser and composer
in concerts, recitals and projects around Europe, the Middle-East, North
and South America and Asia, with collaborations and commissions with
Oxford Orchestra, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Holland Baroque, Babylon Blueprinting, was released by New Amsterdam Records in 2018. Her
Orchestra, Avignon Festival, Lucerne Festival, National Sawdust, London Jazz commitment to adventurous repertoire and the collaborative process has
Festival, Wigmore Hall, and New World Symphony among others. Chaker led to her membership in the Grammy-nominated chamber orchestra A Far
is also the founder and leader of Sarafand, with whom she has released Cry, and the critically-acclaimed new music collective counter)induction.
the acclaimed album, Inner Rhyme (2019). She is a Ruth Anderson 2017 She has performed internationally with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and
Competition Prize winner, the recipient of the Royal Academy of Music’s The Knights, as soloist with the Orlando Philharmonic and Philharmonic
2018 Guinness Award and the Nadia & Lili Boulanger 2019 Scheme, and a Orchestra of Santiago, on tour with Musicians from Marlboro, and in recital
finalist of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé 2018 Prize. at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Born to Armenian parents
in Toronto, Karen holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees from The Juilliard
School, where she was a student of Timothy Eddy.
Shawn Conley
Bass
Shane Shanahan
Hawaiian born bassist and composer Shawn Percussion
Conley grew up loving all types of music. This
love of diversity of sound developed into a career Percussionist, composer, and arranger
that straddles many genres. He has been playing Shane Shanahan has combined his studies of
with the Silkroad Ensemble for six years and drumming traditions from around the world
is a member of the Brooklyn based chamber with his background in jazz, rock, and Western
orchestra, The Knights. Recent projects include art music to create a unique, highly sought-after
Silkroad’s Grammy Award-winning album Sing Me Home, an upcoming style. He is one of Silkroad’s inaugural co-artistic
release of the Brahms and Beethoven violin concertos with Gil Shaham and directors; has performed with Bobby McFerrin,
The Knights, the world premiere tour of Osvaldo Golijov’s Falling Out of Time, James Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Philip Glass, Alison Krauss, Chaka Khan, and
as well as an international tour of the new performance-art piece The Head Deep Purple, among others; and has appeared at the White House, playing
and the Load created by South African visual artist William Kentridge. As a for President and First Lady Obama. He frequently hosts workshops and
studio musician, he has performed on multiple soundtracks including True clinics at the world’s leading universities and museums and collaborates
Grit, Moonrise Kingdom, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Vietnam actively with the dance, theater, and yoga communities in the New York area,
War documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and the Amazon series including several stints on Broadway.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Conley studied at Rice University with Paul Ellison
and in Paris, France with Francois Rabbath. Shawn currently splits his time
between Brooklyn and Houston with his wife Megan, and their son Osian. Issam Rafea
Oud
An active composer and arranger for Syrian TV
Karen Ouzounian and Theater, Issam Rafea won the 2010 “Best
Cello Composer Award” in the Dubai International
Film Festival (Muhr Arab) for his music in the
Praised for her “radiant” and “expressive” film “Matar Ayloul” (September Rain). Rafea was
performances (The New York Times), cellist Karen Chair of the Arabic Music Department at the High
Ouzounian is a winner of the S&R Foundation’s Institute of Music in Damascus and the principal
2016 Washington Award and at home in diverse conductor of the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music from 2003-2013,
musical settings. She is a founding member as well as the co founder for the contemporary Arabic music groups “Hewar”
of the Aizuri Quartet, which was awarded and “Twais Quartet.” Since then, Rafea has directed the Middle Eastern Music
the Grand Prize at the 2018 M-Prize Chamber Ensemble at Northern Illinois University School of Music; became an artist-in-
Arts Competition, First Prize at the 2017 Osaka International Chamber residence at Carleton College; presented workshops and performances across
Music Competition in Japan, and was the String Quartet-in-Residence at the globe; and collaborated with artists like Gao Hong, “Gorillaz”, Fareed
the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its 2017-18 season. Its debut album, Haque, the Syrian National Orchestra, and more.SAVE THE DATE!
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