A Palestinian violonist trained in Angers on Arte tv channel

Angers will be the background of a documentary the tv channel Arte broadcasts on Thursday about Ramzy Abu Redwan, a Palestian violonist trained in the city conservatoire of music between 1998 and 200. 

Credit Angers city

In spite of the fact that nothing predisposed Mr Abu Redwan to play violin (he threw stones on the Israeli soldiers during the first Intifada of 1987 and recalls he was several times wounded and jailed for such actions), he watched by chance a music audition in Jordania and, with a French scholarship, came to Angers and got a gold medal in its school of music. 

Wishing to save his young fellow citizens living in the Palestinian refugees camps outside the spiral of violence, he founded in that town an association whose name doesn't sound very Angevin : "Al Kamandjâti" (which means the violonist in Arab). The aim of that association set up in 2020 is to promote the musical culture in Palestine where it started to create schools of music since 2003 "in a universe full of violence", points out Arte.

"Al Kamandjäti" didn't broke its links with its mother land. Three years ago, three young Palestinans travelled towards Angers to follow the example of their elder.