Notions of Style (üslup) in Ottoman Music: The Fasıl

Notions of Style (üslup) in Ottoman Music: The Fasıl
2011-12-08 20:30 - 22:00 UTC | CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102, Cambridge, MA 02138
The CMES Sohbet-i Osmaniye lecture series and the Harvard Department of Music are pleased to present

A Workshop with Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol

This event is free and open to the public.

Please note: Although the workshop is open to all (scholars, musicians, enthusiasts), the final 30 minutes of the workshop will be devoted to playing portions of two pieces available online here (http://bit.ly/vCM3pD%20) and here (http://bit.ly/uq1yiG). For further information or to request a music stand, please contact Jonathan Withers (jwithers@fas.harvard.edu).

Mehmet Sanlıkol came to the US in the year of 1993 when he won a scholarship to Berklee College of Music. In 1997, he founded the contemporary jazz ensemble AudioFact and later toured Mexico, Argentina, the USA and Europe. The same year, he received Berklee College of Music’s Clare Fischer Award and completed his degree in Jazz Composition and Film Scoring. In 2000, he graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music with a Master’s Degree in Jazz Composition. In 2003 he taught in the theory and music history departments of the New England Conservatory, and in 2004 Mehmet completed his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Composition at the New England Conservatory.

In addition to a number of CDs and DVDs he released with the Boston-based DÜNYA, Mehmet also released two CDs with AudioFact. He has composed for, performed and toured with international stars and ensembles such as Tiger Okoshi, Bob Brookmeyer, Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez, Okay Temiz, Erkan Oğur, Yansımalar, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, and The Boston Camerata at numerous prestigious International Music Festivals and venues such as the Blue Note Jazz club in New York. He is currently a faculty member at Emerson College and Brown University. Sanlıkol actively delivers papers and talks at academic conferences such as the Sohbet-i Osmaniye series at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University. His book, entitled The Musician Mehters, about the organization and the music of the Ottoman Janissary Bands was published during 2011 in English by The ISIS press and in Turkish by Yapı Kredi Yayınları.

Contact: Liz Flanagan
Sponsor(s): Harvard Department of Music, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
