In a collaborative effort with the Conservatory  “A. Pedrollo” of Vicenza, the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies is organising its annual workshop on the Turkish-Ottoman ney.
The workshop is held at the Giorgio Cini Foundation under the guidance of the internationally renowned master Kudsi Erguner with the assistance of master Giovanni De Zorzi.

On Saturday April 16 students will perform in a Concert at 18 pm. Free entrance

The ney is an instrument of milleniums past that has become the only wind instrument used in classical Persian, Arab and Turkish-Ottoman ensembles. Ever since the 9th century it has been among the rare musical instruments used in the Sufi ceremonial encounter know as the 'samâ', in which one listens to music and poetry to achieve a special inner state, which can be defined as ecstasy or, more correctly, 'instasi'. From the 13th century on, it has had a particular musical and symbolic role within the Sufi brotherhood known as mevleviye or, in the West, as the 'whirling dervishes', which follows the example of the Sufi poet Mevlâna Jalâl-ud-Dîn Rumî (Balkh, 1207 - Konya, 1273), whose works are written in Persian.