Kinan Azmeh & Aizuri String Quartet

Kinan Azmeh is a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble with whom he was awarded a Grammy in 2017, and serves as artistic director of the Damascus Festival Chamber Players. Hailed as a “virtuoso” and “intensely soulful” by The New York Times, the Syrian-born clarinetist will collaborate with the acclaimed Aizuri Quartet—String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—in an eclectic program spanning classical, jazz and Arabic musical languages.