Selected Tracks
Winter 2024
The Canticle of Love
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and
find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Wassim Ibrahim, friend of Cantigas for many years, received his composition degree from Damascus’ High Institute of Music. Shortly thereafter he was accepted to the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland where he completed a PhD in 2019. Ibrahim’s career in Poland has flourished. An accomplished oud player, he performs weekly with world music ensembles; also conducting five choral ensembles. He was named Krakow’s Cultural Ambassador.
“Damascus Breeze,” his American premiere, was commissioned for Cantigas in 2014. This past September, Ibrahim visited us once again, and with South African musician, Ethan Smith, performed a concert on behalf of refugees living in Hudson County, New Jersey. Ibrahim’s works have been performed throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The musical essence of Rumi’s Sufi devotional practice is reflected in this piece.
Both light and shadow are the dance of love.
Spring 2023
Norwegian Trilogy
Spring 2023
Eternal Rebel
Spring 2022
La Paloma
Spring 2022
Sea Wash
Selected tracks from our Winter 2019 concert.
Selected tracks from our Spring 2019 show.
Selected tracks from our Winter 2018 concert.