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Music from an Ancient Land:

Traditional, Folk, and Contemporary Music of Iran

BXA / School of Music Course, Carnegie Mellon University

Instructor: Reza Vali

Time and Place: Thursday 6:30-8:20 P.M., CFA A2

Cross Register Students are Welcome. Auditing Students or Community Members are Welcome.

For more information, please contact Sharon Johnston (slj@andrew.cmu.edu), or Emily Syes (esyes@andrew.cmu.edu)

The Persian and the Turkish cultures have had close to 800 years of cultural interactions. Music has played a vital role in these interactions. During the Turkish Ottoman and the Persian Safavi empires, court musicians would move from the Safavi courts to the Ottoman courts and vice versa. Some of the modes and rhythmic cycles of Persian music of the 15th to the 18th century have been preserved in the Turkish traditional music.
As a result, there has been a strong connection between the Persian and the Turkish music traditions for the past 800 years.

The word Segâh is a Persian word that means “the third degree”. More specifically, the third degree of a mode. A mode called Segâh, which emphasizes the third degree of the mode, is shared both in Persian as well as in Turkish music. In calling a festival of Persian and Turkish music “the Segâh Festival”, we are attempting to bring the shared musical as well as the cultural history of the two civilizations to the foreground.

Segâh Festival Schedule
Thursday January 14, 2016
8:00 PM
Alumni Concert Hall

Piano Music of Iranian and Turkish Composers.

Layla Ramezan, Solo Piano

Works by Akses, Hosseini, Kolat,
Majd, Mashayekhi, Özkoç, Ranjbaran
Friday January 15, 2016
8:00 PM
Carnegie Music Hall

Traditional and Contemporary
Persian and Turkish Music

Ismail Lumanovski, Turkish Clarinet
Jahangir Mohammadi, Tombak
Dariush Saghafi, Santoor
Khosrow Soltani, Ney
Kian Soltani, Kamanche
The Segâh Festival Ensemble
Daniel Nesta Curtis, Conductor
Hoppa Project
Erberk Eryılmaz, Conductor

Improvisations on the mode of Segâh
Eryılmaz, Concerto for Solo Wind Instrument, Ensemble and Imaginary Folkdancers
Vali, Double Concerto for Persian Ney, Kamanche and Ensemble
Saturday January 16, 2015
5:30 PM
Alumni Concert Hall

Showcase concert of Persian and
Turkish Instruments

Ismail Lumanovski, Turkish Clarinet
Jahangir Mohammadi, Tombak
Dariush Saghafi, Santoor
Khosrow Soltani, Ney, Sornâ,
Schalmei (Shawm)
Kian Soltani, Kamanche
Hoppa Project,
Erberk Eryılmaz, Conductor

Demonstration of Persian and Turkish instruments
Vali, Sornâ (Folk Songs, Set No.17)
Eryılmaz, Concerto for Solo Wind Instrument, Ensemble and Imaginary Folkdancers

Free Admission for the Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh
(Students, Faculty and Staff)

For more Info:

www.segahfestival.com
Please call us at: 724 799 2067 or 919 348 7744
Email us at: segahfestival@gmail.com
Message us at: The Segah Festival Facebook page

Concert on 01/14 Free of Admission
Concert on 01/15 Ticket: 10$
Concert on 01/16 Ticket: 10$

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The Segâh Festival
is sponsored by:

The Center for Iranian Music
of Carnegie Mellon University

The Carnegie Mellon University
School of Music

The Turkish Student Society of
Carnegie Mellon University

The Persian Student Organization
of Carnegie Mellon University

The Persian Panthers
of the University of Pittsburgh

Email: segahfestival@gmail.com

Tel: 860-838-1991

FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/720713438056051/

Center for Iranian Music and The School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University present Matka Ensemble

The Swiss Ensemble Matka will travel from Lausanne, Switzerland, to Pittsburgh to present concerts of Iranian and Swiss contemporary music at the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Ensemble Matka will perform on Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 1:30 P.M., and on Friday, February 13, 2015 at 8:00 P.M. Both concerts are free admission and will take place at the Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University.
In addition, members of the Matka Ensemble will give a lecture at the Composers’ Forum on Friday, February 13, 2015 at 1:30 P.M. in room 157, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University.

MATKA ENSEMBLE

Founded in Geneva in 2012, Matka is a contemporary music ensemble which offers more than
contemporary music. Its dynamic members hail from every profession in the musical world and
have a passion for organising innovative artistic events.

ECLECTISM
Matka’s members interact as a young, friendly group, while simultaneously aiming at international
visibility and recognition. They combine premieres of recent artistic creations with works from the
twentieth-century repertoire, oscillating between parallels and contrasts, putting their artistic and
technical mastery to the service of new points of view on the plurality of musical styles typical of
our time.

OPENNESS
As a contemporary music ensemble, Matka offers a programme of acoustic, acousmatic and mixed
works, while always endeavouring to outpass the divisions between artistic genres, technologies and
musical traditions. It reflects the cultural diversity of Geneva, creating fertile conditions for thought,
encounters and debates.

SHARING
Matka’s projects only have a meaning if they can be shared.
The group makes its performances accessible to everyone by choosing original venues and
organising pre-concert presentations as well as educative projects. It seeks to open up areas which
are all too often perceived as elitist and to communicate with its public in a warm-hearted
atmosphere, both during the concert and after, when drinks and humus are served.