When Bushra met the Dudoks, September 2023

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam gives the world premiere of Bushra El-Turk's Three Tributes at the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam on 3 February 2024, at the Muziekgebouw. A co-commission between Borletti-Buitoni Trust, West Cork Chamber Music Festival and String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, Three Tributes offers musical portraits of three Levantine female singers who lived during the Nahda period, a cultural renaissance in the Arabic-speaking world that took place between the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. In preparation, this film records Bushra El-Turk's meeting with the Dukok Quartet to work on her quartet's sound world.