Participant: Michel Sajrawy (guitar, Israel)

I am a guitarist, composer, producer and studio owner. I studied in London (UK) and have a master degree in composing for film music. I grew up listening to Oriental/Pop music in Nazareth and in my teens I became interested in Rock. Then in my mid-twenties I started listening to jazz. My major interest is Oriental and Jazz music and I like to fuse them together with Rock elements and some other things… As a band leader, I have 3 CDs on the market and more than 18 albums in collaboration with other artists. I have developed a unique and innovative style of playing the guitar, by combining Maqamat (the music of the arabic middle east) to the Jazz idiom and without any alteration to the instrument. My peace project band contains people from three different religious backgrounds (Judaism, Christianity and Islam).