Trio of Three Cultures - Gao Hong, pipa; Issam Rafea, Oud; Leonard Jacome, Venezuelan Harp.

Live Composition/Improvisation "Bring Us to China" on April 15, 2023 at Carleton College Kracum Performance Hall. Trio of Three Cultures features master musicians from China, Venezuela and Syria: Gao Hong (Chinese pipa), Leonard Jacome (Venezuelan harp) and Issam Rafea (Oud), presenting a new form of collaborative world music that melds styles and sensibilities. In their performances they each play music from their cultures, demonstrate their instruments, join to together in free improvisations, and ad-lib live compositions that result in one-of-a-kind fusions. Their music is not Chinese, Syrian or Venezuelan, but a new form of world music that melds styles and sensibilities from three cultures.