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MUSIC, MIDDLE EAST STUDIES BRING GUEST ARTIST, SCHOLAR TO CAMPUS
University of Arkansas
Nov 7 2012
Renowned international pianist Ayse Taspinar will perform a solo
recital of her repertoire of Ottoman classical music as well as
some well-known Western composers at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11, in
Giffels Auditorium. She will also present a lecture on Rediscovering
the Shared Cultural Heritage of Armenians and Turks Through Music at
12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, in Old Main, room 208. Both events
are free and open to the public.
Her concert will feature a number works by composers such as Komitas
Vardapet, Dikran Tchoudhadjian and Ahmed A. Saygun, along with Franz
Liszt and E. R. Blanchet.
"I like to play well-known Western composers such as Franz Liszt with
unknown pieces like Emile Robert Blanchet's Turquie,' which captures
the mysticism of Turkish culture," said Taspinar, "I also want to
introduce music-lovers to the rich cultural mosaic of the Ottoman
Empire, and to composers and musicians of different ethnic groups."
The concert is sponsored by the department of music, as part of the
Fulbright College Piano Performance Program, in partnership with the
King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies.
Taspinar has performed throughout Europe, North and South America,
and the Middle East, for the presidents of Macedonia and Turkey and
as part of the delegation honoring the 75th anniversary of the Turkish
Republic in Washington, D.C.
Taspinar is a graduate of the Bilkent University in Turkey,
Conservatorio di Roma, the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatorio di Milano
and Indiana University. She has recently received a doctorate of
musical arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she
completed a thesis. Her academic work is part of her broader musical
exploration of the synthesis of Western and Middle Eastern classical
music traditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially
the compositions and collaborative efforts of Turkish and Armenian
composers who incorporated local folk melodies into their work.
University of Arkansas
Nov 7 2012
Renowned international pianist Ayse Taspinar will perform a solo
recital of her repertoire of Ottoman classical music as well as
some well-known Western composers at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11, in
Giffels Auditorium. She will also present a lecture on Rediscovering
the Shared Cultural Heritage of Armenians and Turks Through Music at
12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, in Old Main, room 208. Both events
are free and open to the public.
Her concert will feature a number works by composers such as Komitas
Vardapet, Dikran Tchoudhadjian and Ahmed A. Saygun, along with Franz
Liszt and E. R. Blanchet.
"I like to play well-known Western composers such as Franz Liszt with
unknown pieces like Emile Robert Blanchet's Turquie,' which captures
the mysticism of Turkish culture," said Taspinar, "I also want to
introduce music-lovers to the rich cultural mosaic of the Ottoman
Empire, and to composers and musicians of different ethnic groups."
The concert is sponsored by the department of music, as part of the
Fulbright College Piano Performance Program, in partnership with the
King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies.
Taspinar has performed throughout Europe, North and South America,
and the Middle East, for the presidents of Macedonia and Turkey and
as part of the delegation honoring the 75th anniversary of the Turkish
Republic in Washington, D.C.
Taspinar is a graduate of the Bilkent University in Turkey,
Conservatorio di Roma, the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatorio di Milano
and Indiana University. She has recently received a doctorate of
musical arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she
completed a thesis. Her academic work is part of her broader musical
exploration of the synthesis of Western and Middle Eastern classical
music traditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially
the compositions and collaborative efforts of Turkish and Armenian
composers who incorporated local folk melodies into their work.