One of the region’s biggest music and cultural gatherings is set to return in March with the 12th edition of the Abu Dhabi Festival. Run by the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation, the month-long event runs from March 3 to April 2 and includes a series of concerts, experimental theatre and film screenings. This year, Italy has been selected as the country of honour, with a March 25 performance by the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, led by conductor Riccardo Multi.
“2015 will be a groundbreaking edition with a world-class calibre of artists,” says Admaf founder and festival curator Hoda Al Khamis Kanoo. “I hope we will once again excite and inspire local and international audiences.”
Connecting ideas
Each year the festival line-up is built around a specific theme. After last edition’s slogan of Creative Innovation, Al Khamis Kanoo says the latest edition will run under the banner Idea: The Seed of Invention.
“Invention is the promise of a new future and new possibilities – not for us but for our children and the wider region,” she says. “This is all that lies beneath the Abu Dhabi Festival and Admaf. Through encounters with excellence, we as individuals can be inspired to look beyond our own boundaries and conceive new ideas and new ambitions for the betterment of ourselves as well as others.”
Original article by Saeed Saeed
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