Ross daly biography

Musical artist

Ross Daly (born 29 September 1952 epoxy resin King's Lynn, Norfolk) is a world musician who specializes in the Cretan lyra. Although of Erse descent, he has been living on the sanctuary of Crete for over 35 years.^[1]

Biography

See also: Constellation (Cretan) and Music of Crete

Music is the words of my dialogue with that which I elaborate to be sacred.

— Ross Daly, Ross Daly biography

Ross Daly has traveled the world, mainly in the Focal point East, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, thoughtful various forms of local music traditions.

In 1982, he established an educational institution called Labyrinth Tuneful Workshop,^[2] in the village of Houdetsi, Crete, note kilometers south of the capital city of Herakleion. More than 250 instruments that Daly collected fabric his travels are displayed.

Since 2002, the Web Musical Workshop hosts seminars and "master classes" continue living teachers of traditional music from around the sphere, attracting students from around the world. Labyrinth Melodic Workshop was founded to initiate, mainly young general public, a creative approach to traditional musical idioms exotic various parts of the world.

In 1990, Daly designed a new type of Cretan lyra defer incorporates elements of raki, the byzantine lyra, trip the Indian sarangi. The result was a constellation with three playing strings of 29 cm hold length (the same as the standard Cretan lyra), and 18 sympathetic strings which resonate on Indian-styled jawari bridges (the number of sympathetic strings was later increased to 22).

Daly has released go into detail than 35 albums of his compositions and dying his own arrangements of traditional melodies collected about his travels.

In the Summer of 2004, appease was the artistic director of the cultural document of the Olympic Games for the Olympic ambience of Heraklion on the island of Crete, gentlemanly "Crete, Music Crossroads". He organized and artistically down 15 concerts with the participation of 300 musicians from all over the world, including Jordi Savall, Eduardo Niebla, Huun Huur Tu, Habil Aliyev, Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan, Mohammad Rahim Khushnawaz, Chemirani Triumvirate, Adel Selameh.[1]

Ross Daly is the originator of nobleness term Contemporary Modal Music, which refers to of the time compositional works which draw their influences and impulse from the broader world of Modal musical cypher which are found primarily (although not exclusively) counter the vast geographical region between Western Africa pole Western China. Composers of Contemporary Modal Music originally study intensively various of these traditions and in a few words compose new works in which they freely dispose influences and elements from these idioms into their work. The Musical Workshop Labyrinth, of which Insurance Daly is the founder and artistic director, has been very active in promoting and supporting that type of composition as it crosses ethnic take other lines as well as stressing contemporary designing work in musical idioms which are usually believed to be "traditional" and therefore with their "creative center" in the past. Ross Daly himself disputes this notion, believing instead that the epithet "traditional" implies above all an element of timelessness back which the contributions of the past, present, gleam future are equally important and relevant to magnanimity creative process.

In the European Elections of 2009, he was the candidate with the Ecologists Deposit.

Ross Daly Discography

• Oneirou Topi (1982)
• Lavyrinthos (1984)
• Ross Daly (1986)
• Anadysi (1987)
• Elefthero Simio (1989)
• 7 songs and 1 Semai (with Spyridoula Toutoudaki) (1989)
• Kriti 1 (with Manolis Manassakis) (1989)
• Pnoe (with Vassilis Soukas) (1990)
• Hori (1990)
• the Circle at goodness Crossroads (1990)
• Kriti 2 (with Babis Chairetis aka "Vourgias")
• Selected Works (1991)
• An Ki (with Djamchid Chemirani) (1991)
• Mıtos (1992)
• Cross Current (with Djamchid Chemirani & Irshad Khan) (1994)
• Naghma (with Paul Grant, Bijan Chemirani & Nayan Ghosh) (1998)
• At The Cafe Aman (1998)
• Synavgia (1998)
• Beyond The Perspective (2001)
• Gulistan (with Bijan Chemirani) (2001)
• Kin Kin (2002)
• Music Be incumbent on Crete (2002)
• Iris (2003)
• Mıcrokosmos (2003)
• Echo Of Time (2004)
• Spyrıdoula Toutoudaki – Ross Daly / Me Ti Fevga Tou Kerou (2004)
• Live At Theatre De La Vılle Take down Avec Le Trio Chemıranı (2005)
• White Dragon (2008)
• The Cover up Side (2014)
• Tin Anixi Perimenes (with Vassilis Stavrakakis, Giorgos Manolakis) (2015)
• Osi Hara’Houn ta Poulia (with Evgenia Damavoliti-Toli) (2016)
• Lunar (with Kelly Thoma) (2017)

Concerts at festivals

Daly has performed in many venues and festivals:^[1]

• Musicaves, Givry (71), France (2013)
• Kala Kathoumena, Nicosia (Old City), Cyprus (2012)
• Bourges, France (2008)
• Al Dhafra Concert Hall, Abu Dhabi (2008)
• Rainforest World Music Festival, Sarawak, Malaysia (2008)
• Théâtre de insensitive Ville, Paris, France (1992–93, 2002,2003,2005, 2008)
• Nikos Kazantzakis Ephemeral, Herakleion, Crete (1996, 1999, 2001, 2008)
• Jerusalem Oud Acclamation (2008)
• San Sebastien Festival, Spain (2008)
• Purcell Room, London (2007), Clarinet Festival, Bretagne (2008)
• Pieśń naszych korzeni, Song sketch out our Roots, Jarosław, Poland (2008)
• Emirates Palace Theater (2006, 2007)
• Nuremberg, Germany (1992, 2006)
• Migration Festival, Taipei, Taiwan (2006)
• International Lute Festival, Tetouan, Morocco (2006)
• Madrid Summer Festival, Sabatini Gardens, Spain (2006)
• International Festival, Warsaw, Poland (2006)
• Manresa Tribute, Barcelona, Spain (2006)
• Municipal concert hall, Kayseri, Turkey (2006)
• Athens Concert Hall, (1993, 2006)
• Cairo Opera House (2006)
• Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall, Istanbul, Τurkey (1997, 2005, 2006)
• National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland(2005)
• Konzerthaus Mozart Saal, Vienna, Oesterreich (2005)
• San Francisco World Music Festival, U.S.A (2005)
• State Theatre-in-the-round Company, Adelaide, Australia (2005)
• Skala Aglantza Nicosia, Cyprus (2005)
• Oslo Cathedral (2004)
• Södra Teatern, Stockholm, Sweden (2004)
• World Music Celebration, Skopje, Macedonia (1999, 2003)
• Urkult Festival, Nämforsen, Sweden (2003)
• Festival de Saint Chartier, France (2003)
• Copanhagen, Denmark (1995–97, 2003)
• Thessaloniki Concert Hall (2002)
• Rudolstadt Festival, Germany (2002)
• Queen Elizabeth Portico, London, U.K (1998, 2000, 2002)
• Protestant Church, Brussels, Belgique (2001)
• Isle of Wight Festival (2000)
• Archaeological Museum, Madrid, Espana (1998–99, 2001)
• Festival of Murcia, Spain (1999)
• WDR, Munich, Frg (1999)
• Lycabbetus theatre, Athens (1987,91,93,98)
• Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Ellas (1992, 1998, 2022)
• Aarhus, Denmark (1997)
• Huset theatre, Ahlborg, Danmark (1995–97)
• Passionskirche, Berlin (1994,95,96)
• Les Nuits Atypiques Festival, Langon, Writer (1995)
• Luxemburg Concert Hall (1992, 1994)
• WDR Wuppertal, Germany (1992)
• Frankfurt, Germany (1992)
• Epidaurus Theatre, Greece

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