Tambour Quartet is the exciting gathering, of four exceptional musicians bounded by a true complicity and a common passion: the tambourine. Brazilian pandeiro , oriental riqq , indian kanjira or italian tamburello , this little framed drum cross all cultures, continents and traditions. Carlo Rizzo, Paul Mindy, Ravi Prasad and Adel Shams el Din are taking us in this rhythmic journey, incredibly virtuosis and rejoicing.

Tambour Quartet is written like a musical journey inside the large repertoire of these instruments which have always accompanied the sacred and profane rituals, danses and very often the transe situations.

Those tambourins issued from four continents (Africa, America, Asia and Europ) are in spite of great distances between them, of similar fabrication and all related to the digital percussion family. Each of these percussion is being played with their own and unique style and technic and their repertoire are linked to although ancient, still vivid traditions.

This concert’s music compositions have been written taking account of the four instruments and interprets specifities. Then in turns the compositions combine or dissociate their styles and tones forming the music conductor between modern and reinvented traditions.

The will is to elaborate a contemporary and innovative writing made from rhythmns, melodies and traditional songs, but also to bring into light for the audience the extreme modernity of these tambourins which have crossed milleniums, still remaining nowadays, models of technical complexity and of musical freshness.