Bîrûn. Ottoman Music Workshops. Armenian composers in the Ottoman tradition

plus Apr, 1520 2013

From 15 to 20 April 2013 the second annual advanced workshop on Ottoman classical music will be held in Venice. It is intended for musicians or musicologists who wish to further their instrumental and musicological knowledge in this important fi eld of traditional music. The teacher as well as artistic and cultural director of the workshops is Kudsi Erguner, an internationally renowned musician and musicologist, who is assisted by the ethnomusicologist Giovanni De Zorzi, an expert on the music traditions of the area. As part of this project, the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies has announced a call for applications for six scholarships for musicians specialised in Ottoman classical music. The idea of the scholarships is to form an ensemble which will focus on some specifi c aspects of Ottoman classical music (repertoires, composers and manuscripts) chosen by Kudsi Erguner and Giovanni De Zorzi.

This year’s theme will involve studying works by Armenian composers of Ottoman classical music, such as Çelebi Ermeni Murad (16th cent.), Baba Hamparsum Limonciyan (1768-1839), Oskiyan Vaskiyan (1780-1870), Nikog˘os Aga Melkoyan (1830-1890), Sebuh Aga Simonyan (1824-1894), Tatyos Ekserciyan (1858-1913), Bîmen Sen Der Gazaryan (1873-1943), Levon Hanciyan (1857-1947), and Hirant Kenklioglu (Emre) (1901-1978).

The workshop will end on 20 April 6pm with a concert to be given by the scholarship holders, conducted by Kudsi Erguner.