Saade, Bechir

 

 

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Bechir Saade is a multi-instrumentalist musician active on mainstream as well as free improvisation music scenes. He has played and performed on numerous occasions at pubs,festivals, etc. with different musicians from jazz (leaning to free jazz), and traditional music, and is always looking for new opportunities to make music and broaden his experience. Since Saade became active in freely improvised music he has played with veterans such as flutist and clarinetist Wade Matthews, and other talented young musicians such as guitarist Sharif Sehnaoui, saxophonist Christine Sehnaoui, clarinetist Jassem Hindi and so on. In Lebanon, he has participated in workshops and performed in the Irtijal festival, the annual free improvised music festival and he recently took part in a Relay with 18 improvising musicians and dancers at the ancient silk market in Deir el Qamar in Lebanon's Shoof region.

Bechir Saade is currently exploring the musical heritage found in traditional Middle eastern techniques of improvisation, which is underemphasized and largely unappreciated in his region. At present, he seeks to establish a link between this heritage and the forms of development encountered in certain kinds of contemporary music. Saade offers workshops on traditional improvisatory techniques of the nay. 1