V · With the Idrîsî Ensemble · On tour 2027
Trobairitz
Compass
The project imagines the Mediterranean as a space of porous listening, where forgotten songs return and ancient texts find new tongues.
The trobairitz were the women troubadours of medieval Occitania, poet-composers whose voices survive only in fragments. Trobairitz Compass brings together composer and violinist Layale Chaker and the UK-based Idrîsî Ensemble around this figure.
Early and contemporary music meet in a new commission that maps Mediterranean traditions through a decolonial and feminist lens. The project unfolds as concerts, a tour and an educational programme across France, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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With the support of Diaphonique, Franco-British fund for contemporary music · diaphonique.org ↗
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