The Segah Festival of Persian and Turkish Music
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$
For supporting us & making Donation:
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/
