The third edition of Katara’s European Jazz festival continues to thrill and attract jazz lovers through staging diverse selected tracks performed by renowned European bands, at Katara’s building number 5.
The grand musical event will conclude tomorrow with the performance of “Atom String Quartet”, from Poland who have constantly played at the greatest European music festivals, such as Berliner Jazztage, Jazz Baltica, Festival Veranos de la Villa Madrid, Jazz Jamboree, Ethno Jazz Festival or Solidarity of Arts.
Jazz Lovers on Sunday, were dazzled by the performance staged by the Swiss band “Simon Wyrsch Quartet” and have earlier experienced the remarkable Spanish guitar that were performed by Pablo Novoa, an outstanding electric guitar player, along with Nono Garc?a, who is a pioneer in flamenco jazz during the performance of the Spanish band, “Radio Pesquera”.
Following the Spanish performance, visitors also enjoyed an Austrian performance by, Namby Pamby Boy that consisted of; Saxophonist Fabian Rucker, multi keyboardist Philipp Nykrin and drummer Andreas Lettner in which the band grew up playing, listening, and exploring music together.
Friday musical night at Katara was culminated with performance of the German band; “Three Fall” that grabbed a significant of turnout of attendees. The German Trio consisted of wind instruments, and a drummer, excluding the standard bass and chord instruments.
Following the German band, a Bulgarian performance “Yildiz Ibrahimova Quartet” presented their musical performance at Katara with the unique combination between Yildiz Ibrahimova’s four octave range and her perfect vocal technique is unbelievable. At the age of 10 Yildiz Ibrahimova started to take piano and solfeggio lessons in a special music school for children. She is one of few artists who can choose between all styles not only in jazz but also in classical music, free improvisation and different types of folk music.
Commenting on the festival, a Canadian visitor, Margaret King, said, “It is my second year to attend the European Jazz Festival that I personally enjoy tremendously, I certainly like the variety, jazz is jazz but there is a different flavour from different communities around the world that you can distinguish it from the music played.”
Katara-European jazz festival is jointly organised by the Cultural Village Foundation-Katara, and several embassies including: Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland in Doha and the Qatar Music Academy.
Supporting sectors od the jazz festival include: Qatar Airways, “Official Airline” for the event, Qatar Music Academy, and Fnac Qatar (Darwish Holding).
