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.

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 ...

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 ...

After the protests were broken up in Saraçhane, a historic square in Istanbul, Professor Aslı Tunç descended into the metro, thinking she’d left the street noise behind. On the platform, a man stood ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, January 31, 2020 — This January, Hoppa Project brought back the vibrant sounds of Turkey to Asia Society Texas Center with their Third Annual Turkish Music Festival. Titled Interconnected ...