Ensemble Bezmârâ.
Concert by the Ensemble Bezmârâ
In collaboration with the Cà Foscari University of Venice Foundation, this is the second appointment organized by the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies of the study group maqām Beyond Nation. The Ensemble Bezmârâ, directed by Fikret Karakaya, will be invited especially for the occasion.
Since the second half of the 1990s, the ensemble has focused on repertoires of ancient Ottoman music, in particular from the 16th-18th centuries performed on period instruments.
The programme features a series of compositions attributed to Persian or Azerbaijani musicians known as ajamlar, (or acemler, acemî or acemyûn) which we find in the transcriptions by Woichiech ‘Ali Ufukî Bobowski (transcribed in the mid-17th century), Demetrius Cantemir (between 1700-1703) and Nâyi Mustafa Kevserî (between 1720 and 1740): beyond their beauty, these compositions today allow us to place both art music, Ottoman and Persian, in a broader historical perspective and testify, according to the intentions of the study group, an interaction that comes from a distant past and goes beyond modern nations and their respective cultural nationalisms.
h 6pm | Free entrance subject to availability
Ensemble Bezmârâ.
