Barbaros Erköse Ensemble

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Led by clarinet virtuoso, Barbaros Erköse, the Barbaros Erköse Ensemble will present an array of Turkish fasil light classical and urban music in the driving and fluid improvisational style found among Roman (Gypsy) urban musicians of Turkey. Barbaros Erköse, of the famed Erköse musician family, has created a unique style forged from an interpenetration of Turkish traditional style with Western-influenced idioms and improvisational performance modes. The roots for such original synthesis lie in his musical family background and life experiences. In Turkey, as in other areas of the Balkans and Middle East, Roman musicians generally come from musician families, where training is fostered as much in the home as with outside teachers, and tempered in a variety of live performance situations. As is the case for many professional musician families in Western Turkey, the Erköse family came from the Balkans. Barbaros' grandfather, Abdurrahman, played clarinet in a military band in the Greek town of Drama. Barbaros' father, Saban, was born in 1895 and played oud (ud in Turkish, a short-necked, plucked lute) in Greece. He later also became a composer, and wrote "Ne güzeldir bakisin" a sarki (Turkish light classical song) in the makam (mode) of Hicaz and usul (rhythmic mode) of Çifte Sofyan, which was recorded by famed singer Hafiz Burhan on the Columbia label. Saban's brother, Ali Demir, was an important violinist in Istanbul's Turkish Radio. Barbaros' mother, Ülviye Hanim, was also f

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