April Centrone

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April Centrone (born March 31, 1984 in New York City ) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer who has emerged in the field of classical Arabic percussion and other genres of world music .

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Growing up in a family of artists, Centrone began playing drums at the age of nine and was a member of various rock and jazz bands, bands and orchestras throughout her school years. The Lebanese-Palestinian percussionist Michel Merhej Baklouk she studied Riq , darbuka and frame drum . In addition, she is also proficient in Arabic string instruments such as the oud and the Arabic violin. She teaches darbuka, frame drum, oud and drums and wrote the textbook Chiqqs with Riqqs for riq players .

Her career in Arabic music began in 2005 with Simon Shaheen's Arabic Music Retreat . She subsequently performed with musicians such as Ziad Rahbani , Marcel Khalifé , Bassam Saba and Charbel Rouhana . In 2007 she became the co-founder, director and percussionist of the New York Arabic Orchestra . As a guest teaching artist , she joined Yo Yo Mas Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Connect in 2009 , an initiative to promote music in schools. She worked in a similar capacity at Musicians for Harmony . She also taught Arabic music at the Berklee School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music .

Centrone has performed at Carnegie Hall , New York City Opera , United Nations , Lincoln Center and Town Hall , the Beirut Jazz Festival, and Jim Beam Rocks! in Lebanon, the Marciac Jazz Festival in France, the Festival du Monde Arabe in Montreal, the World Music Festival in New Zealand, the Taipei Chinese Orchestra Silk Road Festival in Taiwan and the Festival Músicas do Mundo in Portugal and toured North and South America , Asia and Europe.

Her stylistic repertoire ranges from rock , progressive rock , funk , rhythm'n'blues to world music and experimental music. She has worked on projects such as Secret Chiefs 3 (2010–12), Kristjan Järvis Absolute Ensemble (2011), the Arabic cabaret (2013–15) based in Beirut and the women's rock group IKLIL , the Persian Music Ensemble , the Jane- all-femme rock band and Lubana Al-Quntars From Syria with Love - muwashahat (from 2016) with. She composed and performed the music for Mary Zimmerman's play Arabian Nights, and played percussion, oud and violin on 11 Reflections of September by Andrea Assaf , Head over Heels in Saudi Arabia by Maisah Sobaihi and Everyone Has Tears by Cynthia Sophiea . Her debut album New Moon was released in 2018 . She can also be heard on albums by Eyvind Kang and Alekos Vretos as well as on the documentary by Järvis Arabian Nights: Live at Town Hall NYC .

Centrone earned a master's degree in forensic psychology from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and lectured on trauma and introductory forensic psychology at Adelphi University . She taught music therapy at Lebanese American University in 2015, and in 2018, at the invitation of the American Embassy in Malaysia, she held music therapy sessions in women's shelters and centers for young refugees in Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang.

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  1. ↑ a b Apri Centrone (Tom Tom Magazine 2013)
  2. ↑ Discussion of Arabian Nights
personal data
SURNAME Centrone, April
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American multi-instrumentalist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City