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Who is Calouste?

This competition (open for submissions from 3 January to 24 February) sets young people the challenge of representing Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian’s visionary spirit through music (in all genres and styles), visual arts (drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, urban art and other forms of visual expression), text (essay, poetry, short story or other textual genre) or film. It is open to people between the ages of 15 and 25. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is known worldwide, but the man that founded it remains to be discovered (despite having been one of the richest men in the world). The competition encourages young participants to answer, within these four categories, the question “Who is Calouste?”

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Collectif Medz Bazar

The award ceremony of the “Who is Calouste?” competition will be accompanied by a live performance by Collectif Medz Bazar. Founded in 2012 and consisting of eight musicians from very distinct origins, Collectif Medz Bazar performs on stage with original arrangements of traditional Middle Eastern music, as well as their own compositions reflecting the group’s multicultural make-up.

Combining instruments such as the accordion, the clarinet and the violin, as well as music based in the modal tradition, crossed with Middle Eastern percussion instruments and voices with Parisian origins, amongst others, Collectif Medz Bazar seeks inspiration in the folkloric music of Asia Minor and Iran, in the rhythms of Thrace, in Venezuelan music, in hip hop and bluegrass, amongst other musical genres. With this Collectif the stage becomes a Grand Bazaar.

Elâ Nuroglu, Percussion, voice
Ezgi Sevgi Can, Clarinets, voice
Marius Pibarot, Violin, voice
Sevana Tchakerian, Accordion, voice
Shushan Kerovpyan, Double Bass, voice
Vahan Kerovpyan, Percussion, voice

Program

Done Yar (traditional armenian)
Pari Dgha (Collectif Medz Bazar)
Inch g’ella (Collectif Medz Bazar)
Lion and Bear (Collectif Medz Bazar)
I Leave You (Collectif Medz Bazar)
Sevgi Mengisi (Neset Ertas)
Usge gu kas (traditional armenian)
Mi mornar (Collectif Medz Bazar)
Les Mêmes histoires (Collectif Medz Bazar)
Cambaz (Collectif Medz Bazar)
Balik (Collectif Medz Bazar)