NY Oud Festival Day 2 | Rami Gabriel, David Chorowski, Kane Mathis

The New York Oud Festival is a multi-day, multi-venue music festival that displays the oud and its versatility as it exists in New York's diverse musical culture. The NYOF celebrates the oud and its wide-ranging influence on global music culture, showcasing artists from a multitude of traditions and contexts, and demonstrating why the oud continues to be one of the world's most beloved instruments. 
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New York Oud Festival Day 2 | Rami Gabriel, David Chorowski, Kane Mathis
7pm (6:30 doors)
Thursday May 22nd, 2025
Barbès - 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
$30 advance ($35 door)

Day 2 of the festival will feature sets by oudists Rami Gabriel, David Chorowski, and Kane Mathis.  Seating is limited so first-come first-serve.  Limited pre-sale, we expect turnover throughout the night, and to let in many folks at the door! 

Rami Gabriel is a composer and producer who plays Oud, Buzuq, and Guitar. He was awarded the Creative Catalyst grant by the Illinois Arts Council for 2025 and performs widely across North America. Rami leads Chicago favorites The Arab Blues and Rami & the Reliables. His solo album, That's what I been sayin' was released by Sooper records in 2024.  Photo credit: John Boehm

Kane Mathis began taking Oud lessons in Istanbul in 1998 with Mutlu Torun, author of the acclaimed Oud method “Ud Metodu." He then studied closely with Oud virtuoso Münir Nurettin Beken, a founding member of the State Turkish Music Ensemble, for five years. Afterward, Kane led the Seattle Turkish Music Ensemble. Kane has lectured and performed worldwide , and composes for ensembles, film, and dance. Kane has received the Earshot Jazz Album of the Year award and in 2025 became the only American Oud Player to perform at the prestigious Katara Oud Festival in Qatar. 

David Chorowski is a multi-instrumentalist Oud player from New York specializing in folk and classical musics from The Middle East, Western Mediterranean, and Medieval Europe. Starting in his early teens with belly dance drumming in NY and Oud lessons with the late Bassam Saba and then joining the national touring act Wine and Alchemy fresh out of high school. David performs regularly throughout the diverse communities around the tri-state area along with his own original compostions, Buzuq for the band Harmal, percussion for Ta Pedia Tis Polis and was the oud chair for the 2024 off-Broadway We Live In Cairo.


The New York Oud Festival is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.