In the PalMusic UK 2019/2020 Winter newsletter, we announced that a Brighton youth group had invited students from ESNCM to join them at an international camp. Due to Covid restrictions, the 2020 camp was postponed and 3,000 people from all over the world will now...
By Heather Bursheh The Bmus (undergraduate honours degree) in Arabic Music was established at Birzeit University in 2016, in cooperation with the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (ESNCM), and aims at spreading a creative and vibrant musical culture...
On 6 February 2022 Iyad Sughayer played a concert at St George’s Bristol in aid of PalMusic UK. With the kind agreement of Iyad and the composer, Helen Ottaway, we are able to share with you the first piece from that performance, Levantina. We hope you enjoy it....
The Concert that nearly wasn’t by Lord John Cope Iyad Sughayer’s PalMusic Concert on Sunday has had a long gestation. It was supposed to be held in April 2020, but got run over by COVID-19 like so much else. It was planned well before then by Heba...
Award winning concert pianist, Iyad Sughayer, to premiere Helen Ottaway’s “Levantina” at St Georges Bristol on Tuesday 6 February Helen Ottaway declared that she was “thrilled” that Palestinian Jordanian, Iyad Sughayer, will be giving the world premiere...
Sunday 6 February 2022, at St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, BS1 5RR Book your tickets now for Iyad Sughayer’s Concert in support of PalMusic UK. Iyad is performing this benefit concert to raise funds all the young Palestinian musicians that...
Music enriches the lives of those who make it and those who hear it. Music builds bridges between people. Music makes friends.
We link British and Palestinian musicians, particularly young people. With your support, we can bring Palestinian musicians to study and perform in Britain and send British musicians and teachers to Palestine to enrich the cultural life of both nations.
We have close ties with the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, the vibrant institution which teaches Classical and Arab Music in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus, Gaza and throughout Palestine.
We helped fund the Palestine Strings to play with Nigel Kennedy at the BBC Proms 2013 and Mostafa Saad, a young violinist, to play in Hyde Park on the Last Night of the Proms. We sent musicians from Britain as judges for the Palestine National Music Competition 2014. We brought young Palestinian musicians to a summer music camp here and are sending British musicians to Palestine to give master classes. We award scholarships to young musicians in Palestine and we provide instruments. Our latest scholar, Marc Kawwas, is currently studying at Chetham’s.
We help Palestinians to make music; to build bridges; to enrich their lives and the lives of others. We create opportunities for talent to grow and creativity to flourish.
Countess of Sandwich
Chair of PalMusic UK (the Friends of the Edward Said National
Conservatory of Music UK)
