Music Teachers

SOUREN BARONIAN

2009-03-16T00:08:19Z

clarinet (Instructor/performer)

Is an Armenian born artist in NYC. He has performed throughout the US and abroad as a soloist for over 35 years. His groups "Taksim" a Near Eastern jazz-fusion ensemble and "Transition" a folkloric

SAMI ABU SHUMAYS

2009-03-24T03:55:22Z

violin, Arabic maqam and singing

(Instructor/performer)

Studied Arabic violin with Simon Shaheen in New York, Alfred Gamil in Cairo, Abdul-Baset Bakkar and Abdul-Min'im Senkary in Aleppo, Syria, and Arabic classical singing with Mohammad Qassas in Aleppo.

RACHID HALIHAL

2009-03-23T15:06:26Z

Arabic oud, Arabic singing

(Instructor/performer)

Is a world class musician who began his studies in his native land of Morocco as a child. He is classically trained.

ALI KAHYA

2009-03-16T04:23:19Z

Turkish singing, maqam, ensemble class

(Instructor/ performer)

A longtime professional entertainer, is a diversely skilled musician, playing and singing in both Eastern and Western styles.

SEIDO SALIFOSKI

2009-03-16T00:52:03Z

Turkish darbuka

(Instructor/ performer)

A Roma born to a singer mother and a folk dancer father in Prilep, Macedonia, Seido has palyed darbuka / dumbek in Balkan and Middle Eastern style for 30 years. With his extensive experience playing Turkish, Greek, Balkan, and Middle Eastern percussion

OSSAMA FAROUK

2010-02-16T02:35:19Z

MIKE UZATMACIYAN

2009-03-30T17:26:48Z

Turkish oud, singing

(Instructor/Performer)

Was born in Diyarbakir, Turkey. He took his first music lessons from his father.He played cumbus until he moved the States at the age of 17 where he picked up the oud. Mike has been performing in the New York City area ever since.

UMUT YASMUT

2009-03-30T18:23:27Z

Turkish kanun

(Instructor, Performer)

Studied kanun, chorus and violin at the Bogazici Music Foundation in Istanbul. He has performed in concert with many classical Turkish singers, such as the Erkose Brothers, Inci Cayirli, Safia Ayla, and many others. He has been living and performing in NYC since 1998

SONER CICEK

2010-01-05T04:33:19Z

Turkish Baglama, Saz

Soner Cicek was born in Mus, Turkey and grew up in Izmir. At the age of 9, he began playing the Saz and the Tar, eventually becoming an expert on these two instruments. He graduation from the Conservatory of Music in Izmir with a degree in Turkish music and after his graduation he was asked to stay on in a teaching position.Over the years he has participated in concerts all over the world.Since 1993, Soner has been living Carrboro, NC.

TAYYAR AKDENIZ

2009-03-24T02:34:18Z

Turkish rhythms, davul

(Instructor/performer)

Has been involved as a dancer, musician and director of folkloric troupes for 25 years in Turkey. He is a highly respected, seasoned performer who has delighted audiences throughout Europe, Asia, the Far East, Mexico and in the United States. As a singer and musician, his skills with song, the baglama (lute), davul (drum) and kasiklar (wooden spoons) are much in demand.

TAMER PINARBASI

2009-03-30T06:58:28Z

Turkish Kanun:

(Performer guest musician)

Tamer; born in Karaman, Turkey in 1970, Tamer Pinarbasi attended the Istanbul Technical University State Conservatory of Turkish Music, where he developed his own technique for playing the kanun .

ISMAIL LUMANOVSKI

2009-03-30T06:15:53Z

Turkish, Balkan Clarinet

(Performer guest musician)

Ismail Lumanovski was born in Bitola, Macedonia in the year 1984, and started playing the clarinet at the age of nine. He made his debut in 1998, with the Macedonian Philharmonic, and his U.S.A. debut in 2002 with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen Arts Camp.

OMAR FARUK TEKBILEK

2010-01-08T01:28:03Z

Turkish Kaval, Nay, Zurna and Baglama

Omar is now one of the most sought-after musicians, whose work transcends political boundaries while maintaining traditional sensibilities inaway few artists can manag. Omar Faruk was a musical prodigy. He was born in Adana, Turkey to a musical family who nurtured his precocious talents. At the age of eight, he began his musical career by developing proficiency on the kaval, a small diatonic flute.

KARIM NAGI

2009-03-30T17:53:33Z

Arabic tabla, advanced finger cymbals

Instructor/ performer is a native Egyptian who has lived in the Boston area for over 20 years. Karim performs primarily Arabic, Turkish and Andalusian hand percussion, including the Egyptian Tabla (goblet drum), Riqq (tambourine) and Segat (brass castanets also known as finger cymbals).

NEZIH ANTAKLI

2010-01-31T21:22:41Z

Turkish Darbuka

(Instructor/performer)

Born in Germany to Turkish and Syrian parents, Nezih Antakli was introduced from an early age to the fascinating tradition of Middle Eastern culture and music. For several years, he performed with various groups in Germany. In search for a deeper and broader knowledge of music, he studied percussion at the World Music Department of the Conservatory for Music and Dance in Rotterdam/the Netherlands and graduated in 2004.

ARA DINKJIAN

2010-01-08T01:14:27Z

Ara Dinkjian is best known as the founder of the highly influential and groundbreaking instrumental group, NIGHT ARK, which recorded four CDs for RCA/BMG and PolyGram/Universal.

YURI YUNAKOV

2010-01-08T01:21:23Z

Saxophone

As one of the founders and biggest stars of Bulgaria's wildly popular "wedding music" scene, Yuri Yunakov is a saxophone player of astounding technical virtuosity.

AVRAM PENGAS

2010-01-05T04:30:51Z

Guitar,bouzouki

Instructor/ performer (guitar - bouzouki) played lead guitar in the Israel Air Force Band. He is a Greek born musical arranger and virtuoso on guitar and bouzouki.

HAMIT GOLBASI

2010-01-05T04:26:57Z

Turkish Ney, Mey, Zurna, Sipsi

Instructor/ performer (ney, mey, zurna) hails from Ismir, Turkey, where he combined his natural musical proficiency in rhythm and melody with formal studies in the idiom of Turkish folk music.

NAJI HILAL

2010-01-08T01:36:21Z

HAIG MANOUKIAN

2010-01-05T04:29:08Z

Oud

Instructor/performer (oud) an American-Armenian, is one of this country's finest oudists. Haig has played with many of the best musicians in Turkey, Armenia and the Arab world and has been a featured soloist in New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. He has toured with "Transition" and "Taksim."

NIKOLAI RUSKIN

2009-03-24T02:49:07Z

Taiko, Violin, Riffs

Nikolai Ruskin is a multi instrumentalist known for his skill on a variety of instruments from around the Middle East.