Music at SOAS

The leading centre in Europe for the study of music from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and their diasporas, located in the heart of London. Part of @SOASArts

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Come through for another incredible evening !

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The Magpie Robin’s Songbook Album launch happening right now at @SOAS with the incredible Sahana Bajpaie, Samantak Sinha and Sohini Alam as well as beautiful instrumentation from around the world – dotara, daf, oud, guitar, banjo and more.
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Sneak preview for tonight.. see you there !

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The album is being produced by the Global Music Academy director and SOAS Concert Series’ Georgie Pope along with her husband, the writer and academic Somnath Batabyal.
Join us as Sohini Alam, Sahana Bajpaie, Samantak Sinha and Oliver Weeks take to the stage.

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First up on tomorrow and not to be missed will be the album launch of Magpie Robin's Songbook. The Doyel Pakhir Ganer Katha or ‘Robin-Magpie’s Songbook’ is an album of music featuring songs from the Bangladeshi War of Independence of 1971. @KhadirMeer

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It features the voices of Sahana Bajpaie, Samantak Sinha and Sohini Alam as well as beautiful instrumentation from around the world – dotara, daf, oud, guitar, banjo and more.

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On October 15th, we will be Remembering Partition. Join us for a free one-day festival here at SOAS to celebrate South Asian culture through film, music, food and dance, 75 years after the Partition of the Subcontinent.

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Wednesday 28th September join us for a sensational evening of Latin Jazz with @neffirizarry, Graeme Flowers, Davide Mantovani and Davide Giovannini. @SOAS @KhadirMeer @SOASLibrary @BruneiGallery #latinmusic #jazzguitar #whatsoninlondon #soaswelcomeweek

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We hope everyone is basking in this beautiful sunshine ☀️ What better way to finish the week than to come and be completely blown away by Júlia Kozáková’s voice as the band perform their project Manuša!

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This week promises to be full of colour🌈 and good vibrations 🎶, as we start making music together on the first week of SOAS Music Workshops!

Here are this week's courses:

🎵Chinese Percussion
🎵Circlesinging
🎵West African Kora
🎵Roma Music
🎵Classical Indian Singing

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Samer Rashed has performed in concerts and festivals across Europe and the Arabic-speaking world. Most notably, he has performed at the Proms Festival in London, Lebanon’s Beiteddine Art with Marcel Khalife, and at the World Jazz Festival in Germany.

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Our friends at @MarsmUk are putting on this amazing gig, “Tales of the Gypsy Jazz”, with viola player and composer Samer Rashed at Rich Mix on June 18th!

Here is the exclusive discounted ticket link for the SOAS music community:
https://t.co/rljxAZ3Dp5

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You can expect a rich musical journey as his high-energy pieces are juxtaposed by the more tranquil tales from the album, all expertly composed to include an original Arabic twist to the unique genre of gypsy jazz. How exciting!

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Join us tonight for a spectacular evening prepared by SOAS and RADA: Mariachi Las Adelitas and Lokkhi Terra!

Where: Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
When : 7-9pm Thursday 12, May

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Join us tonight for an exciting performance by Diego Laverde Rojas and friends!

Diego has curated an extraordinarily rich programme for us all with an array of talented musicians ready to take us on a musical tour of South and Central America.

Tonight 6:30 pm!!

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Tonight at 6pm. See you there 💙💛

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Tonight at 6pm, in the Brunei Lecture Gallery @SOAS, ‘Solidarity and Fundraising Concert for Ukraine.” All proceeds will go to help the humanitarian effort in Ukraine. #HelpUkraine 💙💛

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This Friday, @SOASConcerts will host musicians from around the world to play a Concert for Ukraine. We asked them to share their thoughts on the role of music and its power to heal, communicate and connect.