Casa Árabe presents the lute player Hesham Essam tomorrow Thursday at 8:00 pm in a concert of Egyptian flamenco. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
This event will be an opportunity to listen to the Egyptian lute player’s most recent compositions, which explore the fusion between Arab music and flamenco. Accompanied by Samir Elturky on percussion, Paco Soto on guitar and El Guille on cajón, Essam’s concert will also feature some tracks from his album Tair wa water (2016).
Hesham Essam was born in Cairo in 1983 and started learning to play the lute at the early age of 11. He studied music theory and lute at the Cairo Opera House, as well as a degree in Music Education at the Egyptian National Conservatory. At the same time, he participated in a number of projects, including the orchestra of the great Egyptian virtuoso Abdou Dagher, of which he is one of the key elements. He is also involved in several fusion groups, including the well-known oriental jazz group El Dor El Awal. Essam is today one of Egypt’s most respected lute players, and has twice been awarded the prestigious prize for Best Lute Player by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture. Endowed with prodigious technique and an advanced melodic sense, in 2007 he represented his country at the Beethoven Festival in Germany.
