PeaceConcerts: Farid Sheek, Rasha Vrede & Danial Moazeni

PeaceConcerts organizes concerts at special locations, with musicians who mainly focus on mystical, devotional, meditative and artistic music from all cultures.
This unique occasional concert with top musicians Farid Sheek, Danial Moazeni and Dancer Rasha Vrede takes place in the Soefitemple Katwijk.
Farid Sheek:
(Isfahan, 1994) is an Iranian-Dutch composer and percussionist[1]. In 2015, Sheek composed the music for the film, Dance Iranian Style[2], which was nominated for the NFF and the New York Film Festival[3]. Two years later, in 2017, Sheek founded his own company 'Arta Events'. He has worked with big names such as the Residentie Orkest, Maya Fridman and Rana Gorgani, and has played in various concert halls in the Netherlands, including De Doelen[4] and the Schouwburg in Rotterdam. Sheek also performed in several European cities.
In 2020, Sheek is known as a professional performing composer. He strives to combine different genres, from classical to pop and from traditional Iranian sounds to modern Western influences. He works on several projects together with Maya Fridman (cello) and Mohsen Masoumi (opera).
Recently he also played for the Dutch Royal family.

Rasha Vrede:
Living both in the Middle East and Europe and traveling internationally has given Rasha many rich opportunities for cultural collaboration and has given her great inspiration to build bridges of respect, love and unity between people of different backgrounds and spiritual traditions .
This has put Rasha on the path of whirling, also called Dervish dance or Sufi dance.
By participating in the Dervish In Progress training, she is now also a recognized instructor who shares her knowledge with all influences and inspiration during her lessons and workshops.
By whirling and the influences that Rasha carries with her, she knows how to touch the emotions of others.
Rasha feels free and connected when she swirls. When she started it was for her own desire, but after the first year she transformed and wanted nothing more than to share it with others. Offer space to experience and connect with the silence in everyone.

Danial Moazeni:
Danial Moazeni was born in 1998 in Esfahan, Iran. At four, he started the Persian instrument to play the Tar. He began his studies in 2012 at the Music High School of Isfahan while studying with Maestro Hossein Alizadeh and Houshang Zarif Basics of Composition and Tar. He has given many concerts with diverse ensembles as a Tar player and composer in Tehran, Isfahan, Shahre-Kord Yazd and Neyshabour (Mashhad). In 2014 he founded the Nafis Ensemble. As a composer he has composed pieces for the Chamber Orchestra of Tehran and the National Orchestra of Isfahan. After graduating from high school, he moved to Austria and has been studying bachelor studies in music composition with Carola Bauckholt at the Anton Bruckner university, Linz, Austria since 2017 . In 2018 he had a radio conversation about the compositional interaction of Persian and European music and culture. As a soloist and composer he has performed in music festivals of Berlin, Krems, Linz, Budapest, and Contemporary Music Competition of Bologna, Italy with “Silkroad”,”Nafis Ensemble”, “WorldMusic Quartett”, “Ensemble Airborne” , “Kölner Schlagquartett” , Trio Sheek & SolterPlus Ensemble. 2019 he won the Prize of “Die sieben Leben des Maximilian Festival” ((Max 500)) He also played in the Theater am Spittelberg in Vienna [5] and in Salzburg with the Famous Persian singer Vahid Taj, with the Solter Plus Ensemble and the Nafis Ensemble. In 2020 he appeared with the WorldMusic Trio at the Linz International Short Film Festival [6] and wrote the soundtrack for the short film “Facing” in the same year. Moazeni also gave workshops and master classes in composition, music theory, listening training, Solfegio, composition and counterpoint at the universities and art schools of Isfahan and Tehran. In 2020 he was a guest for a conversation on Radio FRO & ORF Upper Austria in the program Unisounds [7] about the compositional interaction of Persian and European music and contemporary music. In 2020 he recorded his first music album in the genre of Persian world music with Vahid Taj.

Door open 19.30 u, start concert 20.00
tickets 25 online + 0,80 Hipsy service.
30 at the door.