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Princeton Concert
2024

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Inspired by the groundbreaking research carried out by Béla Bartok in 1936 (in the region of the recent earthquakes) and described in his book ‘Turkish Folk Music From Asia Minor’ (published by Princeton Press in 1976) this concert program juxtaposes compositions for Western instruments with traditional instrumental improvisations from the region.

 

Compositions will include works by A.A. Saygun and N.K. Akses, each representatives of the early Turkish Republican era, who also both traveled with Bartok in southeast Anatolia. Alongside these string quartet movements, solo piano music written by their predecessors born into the late Ottoman Empire, the Armenian and Georgian composers V. Komitas and G. Gurdjieff will be performed. Oud virtuoso/composer Ara Dinkjian and clarinet virtuoso/composer Ä°smail Lumanovski will improvise ‘interludes’ and perform traditional masterpieces throughout this concert program based on the musical source materials heard in the composed works. 2 recent chamber works from award-winning Turkish composers Erberk Eryılmaz and Mahir Cetiz will be presented, and the composers will both perform at the piano and co-moderate the program. The premiere of Cetiz’s YaÅŸar Kemal’s Lamentations for string quartet, electronics and narrator was commissioned by the Guggenheim Foundation and is dedicated to the victims of the 2023 earthquakes.

 

Princeton faculty member and violinist Sunghae Anna Lim will bring together colleagues from the Klasik Keyifler Music Association (KK) an NGO based in Turkey dedicated to chamber music and collaborations with living composers, alongside the Hoppa Project, a US-based ensemble promoting folk, improvised and contemporary music from the Balkans and the Middle East.

In the Footsteps of Bartók

Music from Asia Minor

October 7th, 2024 7:30pm

Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium

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Compositions and Improvisations by

Erberk Eryılmaz, Ismail Lumanovski, Ara Dinkjian

Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Necil Kazım Akses, Mahir Cetiz

George Ivanovich Gurdjiev

Vardapet Komitas, Béla Bartók

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Sunghae Anna Lim, violin

Ellen Jewett, violin

Caroline Wolff, viola

Elizabeth Simkin, cello

Mahir Cetiz, piano

Ismail Lumanovski, clarinet in G

Ara Dinkjian, oud

Erberk Eryılmaz, davul and piano

Husam Suleymangil, narrator

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