{"id":147565,"date":"2025-10-29T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/interviews-panm360\/gordon-grdina-ghalia-benali-ruya-concert-montreal-premiere-creation-oud-voix-voice-sala-rossa-montreal-interview\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:46:01","slug":"gordon-grdina-ghalia-benali-ruya-concert-montreal-premiere-creation-oud-voix-voice-sala-rossa-montreal-interview","status":"publish","type":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/gordon-grdina-ghalia-benali-ruya-concert-montreal-premiere-creation-oud-voix-voice-sala-rossa-montreal-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Grdina and Ghalia Benali create RU\u2019YA: an avant-garde vision of the oud and the voice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian guitarist and oud player Gordon Grdina <a href=\"https:\/\/suoniperilpopolo.org\/program\/gordon-grdina-ruya-roya-john-hollenbeck-epigraphs\"><strong>will present his show RU\u2019YA &#8211; \u0631\u0624\u064a\u0627 <\/strong><\/a>(clairvoyance or vision in Arabic) on <a href=\"https:\/\/suoniperilpopolo.org\/program\/gordon-grdina-ruya-roya-john-hollenbeck-epigraphs\"><strong>November 2, 2025,<\/strong><\/a> at Sala Rossa in Montreal. The show is a co-production of Traquen\u2019art and the Suoni per il popolo festival, and will also feature the premiere of <em>Epigraphs <\/em>by the excellent Montreal-based percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck for two voices (Jeanne Laforest and Sarah Rossy), guitar (Roman Munoz), and percussion (Hollenbeck himself).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">For RU\u2019YA, Grdina, a guitarist, long accustomed to avant-garde music but later falling in love with the oud, called upon the enchanting, sometimes bewildering, voice of Ghalia Benali, in a journey at the crossroads of abstraction and expressive lyricism. To do so, he draws as much on contemporary atonal writing as on jazz avant-garde, Arab maqams and Persian classical music. In addition to Benali and himself, Grdina brings together musicians Elias Stemeseder on piano, Eylem Basaldi on violin, Hamin Honari on Persian percussion, and Christian Lillinger on drums in this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">With all of that now established, what is RU\u2019YA? What to expect? 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The show is a co-production of Traquen\u2019art and the Suoni per il popolo festival, and will also feature the premiere of Epigraphs by the excellent Montreal-based percussionist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":775,"featured_media":147564,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_crdt_document":""},"categories":[4628],"tags":[],"genre":[3081],"class_list":["post-147565","interviews","type-interviews","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews-en","genre-avant-garde-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gordon Grdina and Ghalia Benali create RU\u2019YA: an avant-garde vision of the oud and the voice - PAN M 360<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/gordon-grdina-ghalia-benali-ruya-concert-montreal-premiere-creation-oud-voix-voice-sala-rossa-montreal-interview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gordon Grdina and Ghalia Benali create RU\u2019YA: an avant-garde vision of the oud and the voice - PAN M 360\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Canadian guitarist and oud player Gordon Grdina will present his show RU\u2019YA &#8211; \u0631\u0624\u064a\u0627 (clairvoyance or vision in Arabic) on November 2, 2025, at Sala Rossa in Montreal. 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