Hoppa Project's

Houston 3rd Annual Turkish Music Festival

 

January 17-18, 2020

 

 

Organized in partnership with American Turkish Association of Houston

 

and sponsored by Asia Society Texas Center and Rice University

 

 

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 FESTIVAL GUEST SOLOISTS:

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 Berklee professor Beth Bahia Cohen, master of Turkish bowed instruments

Carpe Diem String Quartet, one of America's premiere "indie" string quartets

 

GUEST COMPOSER:

Carnegie Mellon University professor, world-renowned composer Reza Vali 

 

INTERCONNECTED CULTURES

January 17, 2020, 7:30 PM, Asia Society Texas Center

Pre-concert talk and showcase of instruments with the musicians at 7 PM

To Purchase Tickets: 

https://asiasociety.org/texas/events/third-annual-turkish-music-festival-interconnected-cultures

 

The first night of the two-day festival will feature Berklee professor Beth Bahia Cohen, master of regional bowed instruments, Carpe Diem String Quartet, one of America's premiere "indie" string quartets, and Hoppa Project musicians. The program will highlight the one-thousand-year connection between Turkish music and the music of the surrounding cultures from Eastern Europe to the Middle East.

 

 

TRANSFORMATIONS OF TURKISH MUSIC

January 18, 2020, 8:00PM, Rice University, Duncan Recital Hall

Free Admission

 

The second night of the festival will feature some of the most important Turkish composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries, as well as Turkish folk and traditional music. The program will be centered around legendary Turkish composer and educator Ilhan Baran who passed away in 2016. The concert will include Baran’s Transformations for Piano Trio, folk and traditional music that inspired him, and works by the next generations of composers who were influenced by him. The program will include works by Kamran İnce, Fazıl Say, Önder Özkoç, Yiğit Kolat and Erberk Eryılmaz, and will be performed by Berklee professor Beth Bahia Cohen, master of regional bowed instruments, Carpe Diem String Quartet and Hoppa Project.

 

 

Lecture on the Fundamentals of Turkish Music and Influence of Traditional Music in Contemporary Music

by master of Turkish bowed instruments Beth Bahia Cohen and composer Reza Vali

January 16, 2020, 1:00-2:20PM, Rice University, Shepherd School of Music, APB1402

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