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EVOLVE (Rupert Egerton-Smith piano tour in Lebanon)

A film about a piano concert tour by Rupert Egerton-Smith in Lebanon in May 2023. Through his collaboration with artist and old friend Tom Young, they explore the transcendent power of music and art, performing concerts in cultural venues throughout a country which has experienced several crises in recent years. Directed and edited by Tony El Khoury Produced by Tom Young Sound recording and editing by Jad Kas (BoomBox Studio Beirut) Rupert is an internationally renowned pianist and composer from Britain. has played solo recitals and with orchestras at concert halls in Paris, London and Berlin, and has composed music for Hollywood motion picture trailers, and the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK. He is currently represented by Alexander & Buono International in New York. This is his third visit to Lebanon, where he has performed twice before- at the Sursock Palace in 2011 and Grand Sofar Hotel in 2018. Rupert has been friends with the artist Tom Young since they met at school in England in 1986. Tom has been a resident of Beirut since 2009. They have often collaborated on creative projects- Rupert composed the music for several of Tom’s documentary films about previous exhibitions in Lebanon: at The Rose House, Beit Boustani, Al Zaher (Spears House) and the Grand Sofar Hotel. More recently, Rupert composed soundtracks for Tom’s stop motion painting animations exhibited at Hammam Al Jadeed in Saida. It is a natural progression for him to return to Lebanon now, and come to play firstly at Dar Al Mona in Batroun, North Lebanon (where Tom was exhibiting at the 'Capture' exhibition, then at Arthaus Beirut, with a grand finale at Hammam Al Jadeed in Saida, South Lebanon. Since Tom’s exhibition ‘Revival’ opened at Hammam Al Jadeed, it has become known as a live music venue in the context of the paintings, hosting performers from around Lebanon, Europe and America. It is a significant cultural renaissance for the 300-year-old building, and for the city of Saida, which is often overlooked as a cultural destination in Lebanon. Rupert’s program includes such composers as Chopin, Ravel and Debussy- whose impressionist music and sensual expression of the movement of water evokes the restored fountain in the entrance hall, the Hammam former function as a place of cleansing and Saida’s close relationship with the Mediterranean sea. He combines classical elements with a jazzy edge, interpreting Earl Wild’s transcriptions of Gershwin’s melodies, and will also improvise his own response to the local context of the venue- drawing upon Arabic and Oriental musical traditions.