Oriental music concert

We went to a student concert at the Centre for Middle Eastern Classical Music, an Israeli music school close to the Old City. All the musicians did a good job - though the hall was too small for all the many people wanting to listen; maybe they heard about the concert via couchsurfing.org, as we did. I enjoyed 3oud and qanoun sounds, and the oriental rhythms, I was carried away by one of the group songs in two voices (I guess it was Hebrew; in Arabic you normally don't use harmony). It was funny to hear Israelis sing in Arabic (I knew "Zourouni" originally sung by Fairouz), because the r's are different, and Arabic have some more guttural sounds.

I wonder if this school knows about ESNCM and vice versa - and if they would be interested in making concerts together... Their interest area is the same (music, more specific Oriental music), though the students at ESNCM are considerably younger than those at this centre. Language might also be a problem, though maybe not the biggest.