At the heart of a program devoted to the dialogue of imaginations and the richness of heritage, a vocal presence of striking rarity is poised to set the city resonating. With Walaa Al Jundi, Arabic song regains its full depth, in a sensitive dialogue between the richness of the great Eastern repertoires and an interpretation marked by modernity.
For her first appearance in Montreal, Lebanese artist Walaa Al Jundi embodies this luminous encounter between the rigour of the great tarab masters and the freedom of visceral singing. Her voice, at once expansive and intimate, unfolds a register of rare power, where every inflection becomes the vessel of pure emotion. A master of the subtle art of sung poetry, she does more than restore the essence of the great classical works: she reinvents them, breathing new passion into them and setting the memory of a golden age in dialogue with today's sensibility.