Archive for September, 2024
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Wind of Saba: A Creative Collaboration
Ozan Baysal (bağlama) and Shohret Nur (dutar) Performance, Wind of Saba, August 13, 2024. Ozan Baysal has performed bağlama, including regional folk and Alevi traditions, since a young age. He studied institutional approaches to Turkish makam alongside jazz and classical music, and completed a PhD on bağlama şelpe (tapping) techniques at the Istanbul Technical University, MIAM. He was a visiting scholar at SOAS between 2021 and 2023. Shohret Nur was […]
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International Maqom Festival, June 26-28, 2024, Uzbekistan
Rachel Harris and Saeid Kordmafi attended Uzbekistan’s 2nd International Maqom Festival which was held in Zomin province, in the Jizzakh region of southeastern Uzbekistan. They presented papers at the Maqom Art Conference, organised by the Yunus Rajabi Institute as part of the festival, alongside colleagues from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, France and the US. Rachel Harris spoke on the historical, religious and musical connections between the maqām traditions of Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley, […]
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Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble will tour Europe and the UK in Autumn 2024
Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble, led by Saeid Kordmafi, will tour Europe and the UK in Autumn 2024. This will be the first of the border-crossing creative projects supported by Maqām Beyond Nation. The five-member Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble is part of a dynamic aesthetic movement in contemporary Middle Eastern classical music which challenges the rigid (and heavily political) boundaries between national traditions, in favour of a cross-cultural approach to the musics of […]