With Ramzi Aburedwan & the Dal’Ouna Ensemble
Featuring singer Mona Miari
As part of the Higgins Institute’s 2026–27 symposium, Noise!: A Symposium on Sound, Disruption, and Collective Energy, Clark University welcomes Palestinian musician, composer, and educator Ramzi Aburedwan and Ensemble Dal’Ouna for an evening of music rooted in the rich traditions of Palestine and the broader Levant.
Noise! asks us to think about sound as more than what we hear: sound can carry memory, express identity, create community, disrupt established power, and give collective energy to people and movements. Ensemble Dal’Ouna’s music offers a powerful way into these questions. Drawing on Palestinian and Levantine musical traditions while bringing them into dialogue with contemporary performance, the ensemble demonstrates how musical practice can keep cultural memory alive while continually reinventing it for the present.
Aburedwan’s own story gives this work particular resonance. Raised in the Al Amari refugee camp in the West Bank, he discovered music as a young person and went on to become a celebrated violist, composer, and educator. He is the founder of Al-Kamandjâti, an organization that provides music education and performance opportunities to children and communities in Palestine and Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. His work has made music a vehicle for education, cultural preservation, community-building, and creative possibility.
For the Noise! symposium, this performance offers a chance to experience these ideas not only as subjects of discussion, but as sound: music carrying histories across borders, connecting generations, and asserting cultural presence in circumstances of displacement and conflict.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities, the Media, Culture and the Arts Program, and the Music Program at Clark University
