Gallery Night with Fausto Palma

Thursday, July 13, 2023

6—8 pm
Free Admission

Gallery Night with Fausto

Musician Fausto Palma returns to the JAC galleries for a live musical performance during Gallery Night.

Visitors are welcome to drop in and experience the current exhibition Book as Muse: Language & Image alongside Fausto's free performance on the ud, an 11-string Turkish guitar.

About Fausto:

Fausto Palma is an interpreter of guitar, sarangi (a 39-string violin from North India), ud (11-string Turkish guitar) and is a composer and arranger. The styles that he uses range from Indian classical music to Middle Eastern folk as well as psychedelic rock, jazz and blues. He began his musical studies at ENA in Havana, Cuba in 1997, followed by the Conservatory of Music in Mexico City and in Egypt at The Opera of Cairo. Palma completed his formal studies at the Rotterdam Conservatory in Holland from 2000 – 2004 and in New Delhi, India, with teachers such as Ustad Fariduddin Dagar, Hari Prassad Chaurassia, Nirmalia Dey, and Ustad Asif Ali Khan from 2004 – 2005. He has been the creator of multiple musical projects such as Assalam, Zikam, Strictly Personal, and The Fausto Palma Ensemble as well as worked on award-winning art films and television series such as Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu and several films by Pedro Gonzales Rubio. Since 2005, his band Petra has produced and recorded more than ten albums, playing in international festivals and concert halls throughout Mexico. His latest trilogy of concept albums was released in 2021.