Refund Policy: No refunds
Join Resound NYC for a two-day Handpan and World Percussion Residency featuring internationally recognized teacher, Adam Maalouf. Classes will range from beginner to advanced, and all-levels are encouraged to join. For those who do not own a handpan but would like to join, high quality handpans and frame drums will be provided at no additional cost. If you own a handpan or hand drum, please bring it! Workshops will be held at Makers Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and our Saturday evening concert will be held at Barzakh Café in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Full Workshop Schedule
Saturday, December 5
10AM - 11:30: Fundamental Techniques
12:30 -2pm: Harmonic Foundations
2:30-5pm: Rhythms of the World Featuring Mir Naqibul Islam
10pm - "Spirits of Rhythm" Concert at Café Barzakh; feat. Mir Naqibul Islam and Adam Maalouf
Sunday, December 6th
10am - 12pm: Global Rhythm Adaptations for Frame Drum and Handpan
1pm - 2pm: Styles for the Modern Player
12:30 - 4pm: The Art of Collaboration
Our venue is located near several great cafes and restaurants so participants will have several options for meals and snacks throughout the weekend.
Evening Concert Description
“RESOUND” The Spirits of Rhythm
An Arabó-Bangladeshi collaboration between two masterful artists of the percussion world, Adam Maalouf and Mir Naqibul Islam.
This concert is part of a weekend-long handpan retreat in NYC. To learn more about joining, please visit: https://www.viewcy.com/resoundhandpanhouse
Teachers & Performers:
Adam Maalouf - The creator behind Resound, Maalouf is inspired by uncovering new possibilities in the world of singing steel. Composing with handpan, world percussion, cello and a variety of other instruments, Maalouf forms an East-West blend bridging his Lebanese-American heritage with his training in classical music, jazz and world music.
www.adammaalouf.com
Mir Naqibul Islam @mir_tabla
Originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Mir is a trained artist in the Farukhabad gharana (school of tabla playing) under the traditional guru-shishya parampara pedagogical system. In addition to founding the NYC Tabla School, Mir performs in traditional Indian classical concerts, as well as frequent collaborations with jazz, maqam, western classical, and African music ensembles across NYC.
Brief History of the Handpan
Most people agree that the founders of the handpan are Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer of PANArt Hangbau AG in Bern, Switzerland. The two were career steel pan builders as well as inventors of multiple other musical instruments. Felix started building steel pans in Switzerland in 1976 and supplied many of the instruments for the steel bands that arose in the country in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
In the late 1990’s, Reto Weber, a hand percussionist, came to Felix and Sabina and had the idea for changing a steel pan into a “sounding pot in steel with some notes to play with the hands”. The idea was to mix the sound of the South India Ghatam with the sound of a steel pan. The word “Hang” came from the Bernese German word for “Hand”.