Duo Doyna (DEU)

The Duo Doyna combines musical worlds in lively Frejlachs and fast Bulgarian dances from the traditional wedding and dance music of the Eastern European Jews, Sephardic sounds from the Mediterranean region and their own compositions: The touching and rousing Klezmer melodies, which have been associated for centuries with the farmer dances of the East and South-Eastern European countries, grow in the virtuoso improvisations of the duo beyond themselves and combine with hints of jazz, rock and funk…

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Tolgahan Çoğulu (TUR)

Tolgahan Çoğulu (b. 1978 in Ankara, Turkey) began his classical guitar studies at the age of twelve. He studied with Ayhan Akkaya, Soner Egesel, Bekir Kucukay and Ricardo Moyano between 1996-2001. He has participated in Iserlohn, Lambesc, Esztregom and Westfalian guitar festivals and studied with guitarists such as Roland Dyens, Carlo Domeniconi, Dale Kavanagh, William Kanensiger and Jorge Cardoso.
He received both Master of Music and PhD degrees on classical guitar from Istanbul Technical University, Center for Advanced Studies in Music where he studied with Soner Egesel and Bekir Küçükay. His PhD thesis is entitled ‘The Adaptation of Baglama Techniques into Classical Guitar Performance’ and…

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KLEZMERS TECHTER

The ensemble KLEZMERS TECHTER is one of the very few professional female klezmer ensembles in Europe, if not in the entire world. Already at the beginning of their career they won a musical award at the INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR ENSEMBLES in Privas, France. Since 15 years of existence they have participated hundreds of concerts not only in halls like THE OLD OPERA in Frankfurt during the days of jewish culture, but also in a lot of small synagogues especially in Germany

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Vural Güler

The musician and instructor Vural Güler was born in 1971 in Ankara. For over 20 years he has performed all varieties of bağlama, tar and lute. He appears regularly at intercultural music and song recitals, concerts, and festivals in Germany, Turkey, and other European countries.
In his performances, Vural Güler adapts traditional Anatolian folk songs into an elegant and modern idiom. Rhythms and instruments are combined in new and innovative ways and harmonically complement his soft and resonant voice…

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Kardeş Türküler

Music and Dances of Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Thrace

√ is a music and dance project from Turkey that performs the folk songs and dances of Anatolia, Thrace and Mesopotamia in their original languages, and pays special attention their own cultural contexts.
√ is an Istanbul based musical group, internationally known for their use of traditional Anatolian, Middle Eastern and Balkan instruments, drawing upon the rich, varied and conjoined cultural and musical traditions that are the band members‘ respective birthrights: Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Roma, and Armenian….

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Trio Rosenrot

German folk songs of recent centuries in a new garment – old songs – listened new

trio Rosenrot interprets German folk songs in a new, unique way. A folk song is like a core, an essence, which here develops a dynamism that surprises. trio Rosenrot creates an living room atmosphere in the chamber music ensemble of soprano voice, guitar and drums, which in the next moment can change into an orchestral sound space of immense vastness. Current music that touches.

For more info www.triorosenrot.net

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Razbar Ensemble

Razbar Ensemble was founded in 1997 in Bonn, Germany, and it’s primary goal is to present the sacred music of the Ahl-e Haqq, whose extraordinarily rich repertoire is derived from its deep roots in ancient spiritual and artistic traditions. From the outset of their artistic career, the Razbar Ensemble has drawn its motivation from the audience, who has been especially enthusiastic about discovering this previously unknown style of music.

The repertoire consists of a rich heritage of sacred texts and melodies that have been passed down from generation to generation. The compositions are varied, and there is no predetermined format for their performance. The texts and melodies are intuitively arranged, and even the number of musicians, singers, and members of the chorus may vary from one concert to the next…

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Sedaa

Sedaa means „voice“ in Persian and connects traditional Mongolian music with the Orient which makes an extraordinary and fascinating sound.

Master singer Nasaa Nasanjargal and Naraa Naranbaatar who studied in their Mongolian homeland, abduct you together with the virtuosic Dulcimer player Ganzorig Davaakhuu and the Iranian Multi-instrumentalist Omid Bahadori into one genuinely exotic world between Orient and Mongolian steppe.

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THE MAGICAL REBAB DUO

Larry Porter plays traditional Afghan music on the rebab, an instrument particularly characteristic of this music culture. He first encountered the rebab, a short-necked lute with 18 strings, on his journey through Asia in 1976, at which time he had the extraordinary opportunity to study with the renowned master, Ustad Mohammad Omar, in Kabul. Since then he has developed a unique style in which he combines folk music with elements of Indian classical improvisation…

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Hasan Yükselir (TUR)

Hasan Yükselir ranks among the exceptional creative musical talents of his country. He composes and adapts traditional Turkish folk songs into both western classical musical forms as well as into jazz idioms and renders them in his classically trained voice. He performed in theatrical plays and musicals, published several CDs and composed film music for the Turkish and German television…

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