Hoppa Project, directed Erberk Eryılmaz and Laura Krentzman, aims to promote music from Eastern Europe and the Middle East by performing the music of the region with a wide range of styles from folk ...

Rice University presents Performing Asia - Music of Turkey with Hoppa Project, a Turkish music festival. The main events of the festival will take place September 15-16 and will include two concerts.

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — When the powerful earthquake rocked her home in early February, 18-year-old Sidra Mohammed Ali woke up and thought of one thing: her music school — was it OK? The next day, as ...

You cannot be modern by forgetting what is from you and adapting the other to yourself. Identities should not be deleted in this way. The clarinet, foundational for jazz from Sidney Bechet unto Eric ...

The 500-year reign of the Ottoman Empire was the most pervasive — and progressive — influence over Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the upper Arab peninsula. Though the dissolution of the empire and ...

This is a 500-year-old song that carries both Turkish and Arabic elements. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing in non-English language). CHANG: It's being taught in southern Turkey by Syrian classical ...

Asia Society Texas, American Turkish Association-Houston, and Hoppa Project present Sounds of Anatolia, from the fifth annual Turkish Music Festival, a multi-day musical event dedicated to sharing a ...

That any musician, old cat, young lion, or apprentice anywhere, endeavors in jazz is amazing enough, given the elusiveness of "success." That is even more true in Istanbul, Turkey: not a conventional ...

On discovering Turkey, one of the surprising facts was how big it is. Like many Brits we learn about the region by the countries we have invaded, bombed or owned. As it was not plain sailing for the ...

On November 6, Turkish pianist, composer, musician and conductor Timur Selçuk passed away due to a heart attack. He was 74. The son of Münir Nurettin Selçuk, an important composer and singer of ...