Please add a comment to this post so that your name (and what you will do) may be added to the list of performers in a concert showcasing SEM members working in West Asian music.
Performers
- Several of us would be interested in performing some Arab/Turkish traditional repertoire. Please contact Anne Rasmussen, Scott Marcus, Michael Frischkopf, Anne Elise Thomas . . . and they may be more. Thanks, AKR (akrasm@wm.edu)
- David Pruett. Darabukka taqsim (Improvisational solo on Middle Eastern drum). I can also provide darabukka accompaniment for other instrumentalists.
- Eliot Bates. There was some talk at Columbus of having an Anatolian folk music happening/ sing-a-long this year. Turkish, Hemsin, Armenian, Kurdish, Lazuri, etc. repertoire… Please contact eliot through his website!
- Joseph Alpar. Santouri: I’d love to play a few Ottoman classical pieces, 2-3 minutes each. I would also be very interested in participating (playing santouri, singing) in any ensembles that are being organized.
- Aaron Paige. Rik: I’d be happy to participate in any performance of traditional Arabic repertoire.
I would like to play a Turkmen folk instrumental piece on my dutar. I may also be in touch with other folks about playing Turkish folk music with them on my baglama, and/or Arab/Turkish maqam etc. on oud, though I’m a bit more of a hack on those instruments.
Beth Cohen and I would like to perform together on bowed tambur and bendir and then on violin and riqq. We plan on exploring one makam/maqam in Turkish and Arabic settings.