"Music composition for piano solo" (by Yousef Sakhnini) | JIA Contest selected artworks

Yousef Sakhnini is a Palestinian composer living in Haifa.

He proposed to JERUS-IT-ARTS Contest an original solo piano composition structured in 4 miniatures representing different character aspects of Jerusalem: "Voices Beneath the Ground" (echo of the past), "Inside the Walls" (conflict and siege), "Beauty in Jerusalem" (spirituality and beauty that blooms from tension), and "Layers upon Layers" (a polyphonic fugue symbolizing historical stratification). The JERUS-IT-ARTS Contest invited the creation of artistic and performative works that reflect, interpret, or make visible the historical and contemporary connections between Italy and Jerusalem and, more broadly, across the Mediterranean. Yousef Sakhnini's "Music composition for piano solo" is one of the selected projects in the "Music" section of the contest.