Kevork Mourad

Kevork Mourad (* 1970 in Kamechli ) is a Syrian-Armenian performance artist.

Mourad studied at the Yerevan Art Institute in Armenia until 1996. During his live performances with musicians, he makes drawings that are projected onto a screen and transition into prefabricated animations that, together with the music, represent the respective story of the performance. He had the first performance of this kind at the Gyumri Biennale with trombonist David Minassian .

In 2001 he performed with the Armenian duduk player Djivan Gasparyan in the New York Cooper Union and with the pianist George Winston in the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. In a project by Mari Kimura based on the Epic of Gilgamesh , he performed with clarinetist Kinan Azmeh as part of the Beyond the Machine festival at the Juilliard School of Music , at the Chelsea Museum of Art in New York, the City University of New York and on the historic city wall of Damascus on.

In 2004 he performed with the Latin jazz band Syotos in the Brooklyn Museum of Art , in 2007 he took part with the percussion quartet Tambuco on the IX. Festival Internacional Música y Escena in Mexico. Since 2005 Mourad has been a member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble , with which he a. a. has performed at the Rhode Island School of Design , Harvard University, the Nara Museum in Japan, the Rubin Museum in New York, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Art Institute of Chicago .

Further musical partners were u. a. Colin Jacobsen , Jonathan Gandelsman , Eric Jacobsen , Nicholas Cords and the composer Ken Ueno .

source

• The Silk Road Project - Kevork Mourad

Web link

• Kevork Mourad's homepage