Thursday, May 25, 2023
Doors at 7:00pm – Show at 7:30pm
CMC Presents : Roa Lee and Araz Salek
Ticket price:
General Admission. $15 Advance / $20 at the door
CMC Members and Arts Workers. $12 Advance / $15 at the door
Students. $10 anytime
Venue:
Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 1J9
416-961-6601 x202
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Roa Lee
Roa (HyunYoung) Lee is a composer, arranger and gayageum musician from Korea. She began playing when she was 7 years old and received formal training in high school and university for traditional performing arts. Her interest in collaboration and incorporating the gayageum with various music genres led her to study in Toronto, where, as a fearless musical challenger she creates music rooted in traditional Korean ideas while integrating elements from a variety of other genres. A member of the Labyrinth Ensemble and a Gayageum teacher, she’s performed with and at Small World Music, the Aga Khan Museum, Harbourfront Centre, the Four Seasons Centre, the Korean Traditional Music Association of Canada, the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Toronto, several municipal orchestras, and more.
Araz SalekBorn and raised in Tehran, Iran, Araz Salek began studying the tar from an early age under the instructions of Tofigh Iranparvar. He continued his studies of tar and radif with Hooshang Zarif and Arshad Tahmasebi. Araz has been teaching tar and radif at various music schools in Tehran and Toronto since 2000. He has been a guest teacher at the Labyrinth Workshop in Crete, Greece. In 2017 he co-founded Labyrinth Ontario, where he serves as Artistic Director. He has performed at major venues in the Toronto region, where he now calls home, elsewhere in Canada, in Iran and across Europe. Since 2012 he has been part of the Toronto / Crete quartet “This tale of ours,” with Ross Daly, Pedram Khavarzamini, and Kelly Thoma. He has appeared on several recordings and in 2008 released a critically well-received solo album, Birth.
