Beth Beaver
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Beth Beaver began playing music in 1996. Zack Kear
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Zack Kear, composer and multi-instrumentalist, has a Bachelor of Music Theory and Composition degree from the University of New Mexico where he attended as a Presidential Scholar. Zack
has studied music theory and composition with Paul Lombardi, Patrice Repar, Richard Hermann, William Wood, Jack Douthett and Rahim Alhaj. He has composed works for a wide range of ensembles and instruments including orchestra, wind band, chamber groups, solo keyboard, voice and electronics. Zack plays many keyboard instruments including the piano,
harpsichord, synthesizer, organ, and mallet percussion; wind instruments
including the western flute, middle-eastern nay, recorders, penny whistle, and he is also a vocalist.
Zack performs with many ensembles at University of New Mexico including the Concert Choir, Early Music Ensemble, Mid-East Ensemble and Jazz Bands.
He is currently working on a Master of Music Degree with an emphasis in Composition.
Sam Tynker
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Sam Tynker was born into a family circus (Clan Tynker), in Santa Fe New Mexico. He began performing professionally with his family at the age of 11. Over the years he's gotten the opportunity to travel, performing in countries such as Italy, France, Germany, and all across the United States. Middle Eastern drumming has always been a part of his life, first learning from his father Raven Tynker. Over the years he has also studied and been influenced by; Kevin Hartnell, Souhail Kaspar, Raquy Danziger, Bruno Anderson, Kazuki Kozoru, Jess Graham and many others. Sam's passion for the dumbek brings him great happiness that he hopes will carry through to the listener.
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Erik Teixeira began his music career as a high school student in Albuquerque, New Mexico playing trombone in concert and marching bands, working for three years as a sound recording intern at Mixed Media Productions, and playing rhythm guitar for a garage band called Unlocked Away. After high school, Erik went to Texas Tech University to pursue an electrical engineering degree. At Texas Tech University, Erik continued developing his interests as a musician in more ensembles as a trombone player and as a disc jockey at 88.1 KTXT-FM. After receiving his electrical engineering degree, Erik followed his creative passions and pursued a career as a professional musician. For the next 4 years, Erik played lead guitar for the acoustic folk alternative band The Nisa playing throughout West and Central Texas. The group disbanded shortly after relocating in Austin, Texas. At this point, Erik began playing at different open mics and quickly became a mainstay in Austin's poetry scene playing improvisational guitar behind many poets. This led to short stints in improv bands CRE-8 and Jiva. In the spring of 2004, Erik began playing shows with a local poet/singer/MC named Chris "Shorti C" Edwards and formed the group Diasporic shortly before embarking on an improvised road trip to the west coast. Over the next 3 months, Diasporic played throughout California, Oregon, and Washington. Along the way, the group won second place in Berkeley's music poetry slam and performed during the Oakland Slam Finals competition. Upon returning to Austin, Diasporic played a few shows and began expanding into a formidable funk band with Rudy Eccles on bass. At the end of the year, Erik left the band to pursue different musical avenues including small solo shows as Erik the Orchestra. Eventually, Erik began research into ethnomusicology at the University of Texas. Then in the summer of 2005, Erik returned to the west coast, this time visiting music departments rather than playing shows. After touring through California, Oregon, and Washington universities, Erik again settled in his home town of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is where Erik seriously began his studies in contemporary world music, music cognition, and applied mathematics at the University of New Mexico. Here, he joined the community-based ensembles, the Gamelan Encantada and the Baghdad Ensemble. In addition, Erik is currently playing oud with Sadaqah and has reformed The Nisa too play shows in New Mexico and Texas.
Michael Garvanian
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Born in Albuquerque, one of Michael's earliest memories is dancing through the local Armenians' houses to the sounds of Avak
Akgulian's oud and Jake Carian's doumbek. The party goers would join hands and dance in a ring; in some of the houses (like ours) the ring would extend in a circle throughout the entire house; they would dance through bedrooms, halls, living rooms.
After living on the East and West coasts, Michael and his family returned to Albuquerque in 1993 and have been here since. He has recently taken up the doumbek himself for a coming home of sorts, and is enjoying it immensely, with the help and support of the members of Sadaqah.
Issa Malluf
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Issa Malluf was born in St. Petersburg , Florida . He moved to Albuquerque , New Mexico at an early age where he simultaneously took an interest in piano and percussion.
With no formal training, he joined the African ensemble ‘Umoja' in 2001 where he played traditional African percussion, later that year he started working on his own compositions under the title ‘The Call To Power'. These works consisted mainly of software synthesizers and drum-machines. In 2002, he gained popularity with the independent label ‘Aristlaunch' where they released The Call To Power's debut album titled ‘Somewhere in the middle of nothing'. He went on to produce a second album ‘Tern Mi Awn' in 2005 which was marginally more successful then his previous works. In late 2005, ‘Umoja' disbanded and Issa found a new interest in traditional Arabic drumming.
With his new found passion for Arabic drumming, he went on to perform with the belly dance troupes Las Gitanas, Zahara Al-Jinan, and Pishkesh. He also worked soloists Maria Chavez , Leyla Najma, Amaya and Rozana Al-Jinan, With a deeper understanding of his own musical roots, he worked on his self-titled world music project. In 2006, ‘Tea Time With The Infinite Darkness' was released, which was a mixture of world music and electronica.
In 2007 he joined the musical ensemble Sadaqah, ‘The Baghdad Ensemble' with oud virtuoso Rahim Al-Haj with whom he performs classical Iraqi and Arabic music, and the gypsy waltz band 'The Zoltan Orkestar'. He is currently working on his own album titled 'Displacing the Apple' which will be released in late 2008.
If you have a desire to learn more about the music, Beth and her friends in Sadaqah can share their knowledge in a workshop for your budding musicians or private lessons
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