In March 2009, Ziya Tabassian, Kiya Tabassian and Pierre-Yves Martel will present three concerts in France. Ay! Amor…, a programme which draws its inspiration from love songs of the Mediterranean, features French-Sephardic singer Françoise Atlan.

• March 11, 2009: Conservatoire de Reims, Reims (France)
• March 13: Festival Imaginaire — Musée Guimet, Paris (France)
• March 14: Festival Instant du Monde, Nantes (France)

The next Mercredimusics will feature Jean Derome, Robert Marcel Lepage, Pierre-Yves Martel and Sébastien Trahan on December 3, 2008 at Casa Obscura in Montréal. On the programme: improvised music on Les Aventures du prince Ahmed, a German film from 1926, considered to be the first full-feature animation film in history.

The next Mercredimusics will feature Diane Labrosse, Philippe Lauzier and Ziya Tabassian on November 5, 2008 at Casa Obscura in Montréal.

Ziya Tabassian and Pierre-Yves Martel will be in concert with Constantinople at 8pm on November 3, 2008 at the Salle Pierre-Mercure in Montréal. Their new creation, Canti di a Terra, features the Corsican male choir Barbara Furtuna. A voyage at the heart of the Mediterranean and the mesmerizing vocal polyphonies of the sacred and secular songs of Corsica.

Ziya Tabassian will be in concert with the Lian Ensemble on July 17, 2008 (8 pm) at DB Clarke Theatre at Concordia University in Montréal.

Bomata, the new project of Jean Félix Mailloux with Guillaume Bourque and Ziya Tabassian, will be in concert at Festival international de jazz de Montréal on June 26, 2008 (6:30 pm), at Carrefour General Motors.