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·Veneranda Dies Ensemble· is a group created by the multi-instrumentalist Fernando Mosquera in 2005. It's an ensemble from the medieval city of Toledo (Spain) and is specialized in Ancient/Medieval Music, mainly in music from the Three Cultures (Christian, Jewish, and Muslim).
It's an international ensemble formed by musicians from Spain, Sudan, Syria, and Israel, so the members of the group practice the fusion and conjunction of cultures of the music that they play.
With two albums, "The Sounds of Sepharad" (BBC of England, 2009) and "MomentuM" (Several Records, 2012), at the moment they're preparing their third album, which will be linked to the medieval troubadours' music.
·Veneranda Dies Ensemble· is formed by the following musicians:
- Maribel Minaya: voice in Latin medieval, English antique, Arabic, Sephardic (Judaeo-Spanish), Occitan, Jewish, and Galaico-Portuguese.
- Ido Segal (Israel): hansa veena Hindu, tanpura, Turkish violin, and vocals.
- Juanma Rivero "Altarab": hurdy-gurdy, fídula, and vocals.
- Wafir Sheikh Gibril (Sudan): úds (lutes), nay (Arabian flute), voice in Arabic-Morocco, Arabic percussion, and vocals.
- Salah Sabbagh (Syria): medieval, Oriental, and Persian percussions.
- Fernando Mosquera: medieval bagpipes, medieval flutes, voice in English antique and Latin medieval, medieval percussion, vocals, and direction.
·Veneranda Dies Ensemble·, the soundtrack of the Middle Ages...
It's an international ensemble formed by musicians from Spain, Sudan, Syria, and Israel, so the members of the group practice the fusion and conjunction of cultures of the music that they play.
With two albums, "The Sounds of Sepharad" (BBC of England, 2009) and "MomentuM" (Several Records, 2012), at the moment they're preparing their third album, which will be linked to the medieval troubadours' music.
·Veneranda Dies Ensemble· is formed by the following musicians:
- Maribel Minaya: voice in Latin medieval, English antique, Arabic, Sephardic (Judaeo-Spanish), Occitan, Jewish, and Galaico-Portuguese.
- Ido Segal (Israel): hansa veena Hindu, tanpura, Turkish violin, and vocals.
- Juanma Rivero "Altarab": hurdy-gurdy, fídula, and vocals.
- Wafir Sheikh Gibril (Sudan): úds (lutes), nay (Arabian flute), voice in Arabic-Morocco, Arabic percussion, and vocals.
- Salah Sabbagh (Syria): medieval, Oriental, and Persian percussions.
- Fernando Mosquera: medieval bagpipes, medieval flutes, voice in English antique and Latin medieval, medieval percussion, vocals, and direction.
·Veneranda Dies Ensemble·, the soundtrack of the Middle Ages...
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