The Istanbul Music and Sema (Whirling Ceremony) Group was founded by R. Hakan Talu Serhat Sarpel and Nadir Karnibuyukler in order to share two of…
Artist Profiles: Istanbul music and Sema Group
Tag: Turkey
Artist profiles: Incesaz
Incesaz’s music has the full taste of the classical. The “makam” (the melodic texture) and “usül” (traditional rhythmic patterns) the instruments style and the way…
Artist profiles: Ihsan Ozgen
Ihsan Ozgen (kamenche, tanbur, co-director of Lux Musica) is a self-taught musician composer and teacher of the Classical Ottoman music of Turkey. He is sometimes…
Artist Profiles: Burhan Öçal
Turkish music specialist Burhan Öçal has made the bridging of musical cultures his central mission. A native of Kirklareli, near Istanbul, he grew up in…
Artist Profiles: Bora Yasar
Bora Yasar was born in 1973 in Gaziantep, Turkey. He studied Alevi music and played saz for a semah group. He studied and applied classical…
Artist Profiles: Birol Topaloglu
Birol Topaloglu is one of the foremost folk musicians in Turkey today. He was born to a Laz family, in the small village of Apso,…
Artist Profiles: Barbaros Erköse
Clarinet virtuoso Barbaros Erköse was born in 1936, in Bursa, Turkey. He leads the Barbaros Erköse Ensemble, a group that presents an array of Turkish…
Artist profiles: Tamer Pinarbasi
Tamer Pinarbasi was born in Karaman, Turkey in 1970. He attended the Istanbul Technical University State Conservatory of Turkish Music, where he developed his own…
Artist Profiles: Husnu Senlendirici
As one of Turkey’s leading and versatile clarinetists, Husnu Şenlendirici has worked with major stars domestically and also internationally, taking the listener on a musical…
Istanbul Diversity
Light in Babylon – “Yeni Dunya” (indie release, 2016) “Yeni Dunya” (new world) is the second album by a world music ensemble from Istanbul called…