Faran Ensemble | Festival Pasaulis Skamba

In 2025, GM Gyvai presents the festival “World Sounds” in everyone’s favorite St. Catherine’s Church. This is an ideal place in Vilnius for cozy and sensitive world music concerts.

Faran Ensemble
Acoustic Desert Fantasy

The Faran Ensemble trio of oud, kamancha and percussion creates and performs unique music that resonates with the ancient cultures of the Middle East. The name of the ensemble Faran means the valley of a desert river – a dry desert bed that fills with water and life in winter, and dries up in summer. The ensemble, like the river, crosses three countries, defying all artificial human borders. Without words and language barriers, the ensemble’s music tells the musical stories of Persia, Azerbaijan, Arabia and Turkey, and combines them into a new sound. Each musician creates in his own way, walking the unwritten paths of the eastern melodic scales “Maqam”.

Faran Ensemble encourages listeners to turn to their inner desert, full of emotions and feelings, guided by the view that well-performed music is a platform for inner experience and even more – a gateway to hidden unity through melodies and sounds.
The group was founded in 2009 by three musicians who share similar musical moods and values, and quickly became popular – their video views on Youtube reach millions. In 2023, the ensemble released its third album “The legend of the ocean and the moon”, which it will present in Vilnius, at St. Catherine’s Church.

Performers

Roy Smila – kamancha
Refael Ben-Zichry – percussion
Gad Tidhar – oud

A 20% discount applies to seniors, disabled people, schoolchildren and students.
More info: www.gmgyvai.lt