When Ateþ Temeltaþ was a boy in Istanbul, his father, Abdurrahman, seemed prescient about the effect that Westernization, and an eventual relocation to the West, might have on his ambitious offspring.

He’s a Grammy-nominated, Turkish American composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and professor. Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol has blazed a wholly original path for himself, creating and performing works that ...

Classical music is still busy shaking off old stereotypes. But sniff out the right CDs, and one thing is clear -- it's not boring. As these fascinating new releases prove, the music has the power to ...

Please join Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol and the DÜNYA Ensemble on Tuesday, October 14 for a very special musical journey! At this concert, Sanlıkol and DÜNYA will first perform examples of classical ...

A concert of Ottoman, court music performed by some of Turkey’s finest and renowned musicians is being held on 234 October. A first for the theatre and Malta, the concert aims to highlight the art of ...

The resonant sounds of The Newberry Consort filled the halls of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston and transported the audience across centuries of the Ottoman Empire on Sunday. The Newberry ...

As a boy in the Turkish community of Azerbaijan, in northwestern Iran, Salaheddin Takesh spent much time listening to the radio. That was where he first heard the lively music of neighboring countries ...

Zabelle Panosian sang a hit record that became a staple of Armenian American households in the 1920s but died in anonymity. Panosian is one of the many immigrant musical performers whose songs will be ...

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