SPRING 2012
A Concert for Turkish Earthquake Relief
DÜNYA performs Ottoman court, Sufi and entertainment music. Followed by reception with Turkish refreshments. All proceeds to benefit relief efforts.
Location: Brandeis University, Slosberg Recital Hall
Date/Time: Saturday, January 28, 8pm
Pre-concert talk at 7pm
Price of admission: General: $10, Students: $5
İki Cihan Arasında / Between Two Worlds: Turkey’s West Within
program
Folk, classical, religious and popular music of the Ottoman/Turkish tradition, interwoven with classical Ottoman music newly transcribed from 19th century Greek sources, early European music and newly-composed polyphonic makam compositions.
Location: Boston College, Gasson Hall, Room 100
Date/Time: Thursday, February 23, 8pm
Location: Tufts University, Distler Hall
Date/Time: Friday, February 24, 8pm
Location: Bates College, Chapel
Date/Time: Monday, February 27, 7:30pm
Location: New England Conservatory, Jordan Hall
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 29, 8pm
DÜNYA Contemporary Jazz Concert Series
Join us on these special nights where musicians from the DÜNYA collective will perform Jazz and original music by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol fusing makam (Middle Eastern modal concepts) and Jazz.
Location: AIC Cultural Center, 38 Newbury St. Suite 702 (7th Floor)
Date(s)/Time:
Saturday, March 3, 8:30pm
Saturday, March 24, 8:30pm
ALEXANDER THE GREAT: Hero, Warrior and Lover
In collaboration with The Boston Camerata
Alexander’s deeds, both real and legendary, inspired bardic poetry and song in pre-Christian, Christian, Jewish and Muslim societies alike. The second of DÜNYA’s east-west collaborations with The Boston Camerata brings together these diverse traditions in a performance of old and new music and improvisations based on sources from classical antiquity, from medieval Europe and from West Asia.
| Location: | Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard at West Georgia, downtown Vancouver |
| Date/Time: | Friday, April 20, 8pm |
| Location: | Seattle, Town Hall |
| Date/Time: | Friday, April 21, 7pm |
a non-profit, tax exempt educational organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. Its goal is to explore a cosmopolitan view of the world through the lens of a wide range of Turkish traditions, alone and in conversation with the musics of the formerly Ottoman peoples—Greeks, Jews, Armenians, Arabs, Kurds, mystics—as well as with western and other world traditions. The DÜNYA collective includes specialists in Ottoman music, early European music, Middle Eastern Christian and Jewish music, ethnomusicology, jazz, contemporary composition and popular music. In DÜNYA projects, research and translation combine with original composition, improvisation and musical experimentation to create lively presentations, recordings and publications aimed at engaging contemporary audiences. DÜNYA seeks to work with a wide range of cultural and religious organizations and relies on no particular political, governmental or religious affiliation or support of any kind.