Jam Session: Bassel Hariri

Bassel Hariri is a Syrian violinist from Aleppo who has dedicated his music career to exploring different avenues of expressing the sound of the Arab violin. His work spans across a wide array of experimental projects in different genres (Jazz, blues, folk & electronic). His jamming club "JamArabia" on Clubhouse has an international reach providing an open space for musical creativity that aims at exploring cultural diversity by bringing together professional and amateur artists to share their music and stories with music and art lovers across the globe. Through these jam sessions, he facilitates a space for creating fresh, authentic, and human-focused music while inducing dialogue that challenges all political and social norms and assumptions surrounding music making, especially in the Arab world.

Join us in the Recital Room for an interactive session with Bassel as he explores the Arab violin through maqam, improvisation, looping, and more for an opportunity to engage more deeply with Arab maqam in a global context. This session is part of a workshop (Musicians in Exile: Preserving, Creating or Eulogizing Syrian Culture?) organized by Dunya Habash in the final year of her PhD studies at the Faculty.