Post Tagged with: "Shashmaqom"
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Masterclass with Ilyos Arabov
On 14 January 2025, SOAS Department of Music hosted Honoured Artist of Uzbekistan, Ilyos Arabov, to discuss and demonstrate his art. An outstanding singer, instrumentalist, and maqām master from Uzbekistan, Arabov has performed internationally and won prestigious prizes at festivals worldwide. He is recognised as one of the leading performers of Central Asian Shashmaqom and heads the instrumental performance department at the Yunus Rajabi Institute in Tashkent. In a wide-ranging […]
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The beauty of Shashmaqom
Workshop and Concert at SOAS, 18 March, 2024 This was a stunning concert, with master musicians from Tajikistan, Sirojiddin Juraev on dotar, tanbur and sato, and Khurshed Ibrohimzoda on vocals and tanbur, performing excerpts from the Shashmaqom repertoire, plus a selection of instrumental pieces and new compositions. They were joined by dancer Madina Sabirova from the Tajik State Ensemble Zebo. Sirojiddin and Khurshed were both part of the Academy of Maqom based […]