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Nurlanbek Nyshanov, artistic director, choor, chopo choor, jaw harps with Ensemble Tengir-Too Nomadic cultures have produced virtuosic instrumental repertoires, and these are the specialty of Tengir-Too, a Kyrgyz collective whose name means "Celestial Mountains" and refers to the mountain range -better known by its Chinese name, Tien Shan - that towers over the high alpine passes linking Kyrgyzstan and China. Tengir-Too seamlessly combines ...

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Basel Rajoub, artistic direction, saxophones, duclar Kenan Adnawi, oud Andrea Piccioni, percussion Feras Charestan, qanun Soriana translates as "Our Syria." This adventurous programme brings together eminent performer- composer-improvisers from Syria and the West who create contemporary music inspired by the rich cultural heritage of the Orient. Performed on Middle Eastern and Western instruments, the programme showcases the rising generation of cosmopolitan Arab musicians. ...

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Sanubar Tursun, dutar, vocal Hesenjan Tursun, satar Husenjan Tursun, tambur This programme introduces three outstanding Uyghur musicians performing traditional repertories while simultaneously working to develop and communicate their art in the contemporary world. Programme includes traditional folksongs and suites of classical vocal and instrumental pieces that belong to the repertoire of the Uyghur Muqam. ...

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David Harrington, violin John Sherba, violin Hank Dutt, viola Sunny Yang, cello Lassana Diabaté, 22-key balafon Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, vocal Mamadou Kouyaté, bass ngoni The Aga Khan Music Initiative and the San Francisco- based Kronos Quartet have inaugurated a pioneering musical collaboration that brings the quartet together with leading musicians from the AKMI countries to compose, arrange, and perform new music rooted ...

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David Harrington, violin John Sherba, violin Hank Dutt, viola Sunny Yang, cello Homayun Sakhi, rubab Seiar Hashimi, tabla Abbos Kosimov, doyra and qayraq In 2008, the Aga Khan Music Initiative and the San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet inaugurated a pioneering musical collaboration that brings the quartet together with leading musicians from AKMI countries to compose, arrange, and perform new music rooted in regional traditions. ...

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David Harrington, violin John Sherba, violin Hank Dutt, viola Sunny Yang, cello Alim Qasimov, vocal, daf Fargana Qasimova, vocal, daf Rauf Islamov, kamancha Zaki Valiyev, tar Rafael Asgarov, balaban Javidan Nabiyev, naghara In 2008, the Aga Khan Music Initiative and the San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet inaugurated a pioneering musical collaboration that brings the quartet together with leading musicians from AKMI countries to compose, ...

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Ozoda Ashurova, vocal Abduvali Abdurashidov, tanbur, sato Sirojiddin Juraev, tanbur, dutar Jasser Haj Youssef, violin, viola d'amore Abbos Kosimov, doira Pasha Hanjani, ney Mohammad Motamedi, vocal This concert programme brings together adventurous musicians from Tajikistan, Iran, and Tunisia who reassemble diverse expressions of a shared musical heritage in contemporary forms. Conceived and produced by the Aga Khan Music Initiative, the programme aims to ...

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Homayun Sakhi, afghan rubab Rahul Sharma, santur Sirojiddin Juraev, dutar, tanbur Mukhtor Muborakqadomov, badakhshani setar This programme features a musical collaboration that represents a modern-day encore of the remarkable artistic synthesis cultivated by the emperors who ruled the Mughal Dynasty, founded at the beginning of the 16th century by Babur. Inspired by visual images and literary descriptions of exuberant music-making in the Mughal ...

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Nodira Pirmatova, vocal, dutar Sirojiddin Juraev, dutar Abbos Kosimov, doyra The musical world of Central Asia's sedentary artists comprises a vast repertoire of songs and instrumental pieces that encompass the entire spectrum of civic life, from devotion and prayer to festivity and celebration. In the great cities of Samarqand, Bukhara, and Khiva, connoisseurs of traditional music and poetry have created a cult of ...

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Academy of Maqam, Music of Shashmaqom Homayun Sakhi Trio Sirojiddin Djuraev, tanbur, dutar (Tajikistan) Abbos Kosimov, doira (Uzbekistan) Mohammad Motamedi, vocal (Iran) Nodira Pirmatova, vocal (Uzbekistan) This new programme offers a panoramic presentation of the Music and Voices of the Silk Route. Designed to present audiences with a broad perspective on the richness and diversity of the artistic traditions of the region, this ...

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Ulzhan Baibussynova, vocal, dombra (Kazakhstan) Raushan Urazbayeva, qyl-qobyz (Kazakhstan) Nodira Pirmatova,vocal, dutar, tanbur (Uzbekistan) The Silk Road serves as an enduring symbol of humanity joined together by trade and cultural exchange. At the very centre of the Silk Road lands, amid the vast steppe and great oasis cities of Central Asia, two very different civilizations - nomadic and sedentary - preserve their own ...

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Alim Qasimov, vocal, daf Fargana Qasimova, vocal, daf Rauf Islamov, kamancha Zaki Valiyev, tar Rafael Asgarov, balaban Javidan Nabiyev, naghara Alim Qasimov and his daughter Fargana exemplify the explosive artistic energy that results when a powerful musical model ignites the spark of young talent. Fargana Qasimova's talent gravitated toward the music she heard from her father: Azerbaijani classical music, known as mugham, and ...

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Abduvali Abdurashidov, Artistic Director and sato Jamshed Ergashev, vocal, doyra Sirojiddin Juraev, dutar Kamoloddin Khamdamov, vocal, tanbur Ozoda Ashurova, vocal Nasiba Omonboeva, vocal Khurshed Ibrohimov, vocal The programme celebrates the repertory of Central Asian classical music known as Shashmaqom ("six maqoms"), where instrumental pieces, lyrical song, poetry, and dance are bound together in an artistic conception of refinement and profound beauty. The roots ...

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Sanubar Tursun is one of the finest singers in Central Asia today; a star performer regarded by many as a symbol of the Uyghur nation. Her delicate and sensuous vocals breathe fresh life into the classical Muqam repertoire as well as traditional songs. ...

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Sanubar Tursun is one of the finest singers in Central Asia today; a star performer regarded by many as a symbol of the Uyghur nation. Her delicate and sensuous vocals breathe fresh life into the classical Muqam repertoire as well as traditional songs. ...

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Solo performance by Uighur ghijak player Abdukerim Osman, performed in Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, 2014 ...

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Solo performance of Yunus Migit, a satar player from Xinjiang, China. ...

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Sanubar Tursun is one of the finest singers in Central Asia today; a star performer regarded by many as a symbol of the Uyghur nation. Her delicate and sensuous vocals breathe fresh life into the classical Muqam repertoire as well as traditional songs. ...

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Sanubar Tursun is one of the finest singers in Central Asia today; a star performer regarded by many as a symbol of the Uyghur nation. Her delicate and sensuous vocals breathe fresh life into the classical Muqam repertoire as well as traditional songs. ...

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The Aga Khan Music Initiative (AKMI) is an interregional music and arts education program with worldwide performance, outreach, mentoring, and artistic production activities. The Initiative was launched by His Highness the Aga Khan in 2000 to support talented musicians and music educators working to preserve, transmit, and further develop their musical heritage in contemporary forms. Music Initiative began its work in Central ...

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The Badakhshan Ensemble was the brainchild of Soheba Davlatshoeva (b. 1970), a vivacious singer and dancer who grew up in a small village on the Ghund River, fifty miles from Khoroq, Badakhshan's capital. Among the younger generation of maddohkhons in and around Khoroq, the most sought after is Aqnazar Alovatov. Interested from an early age in both music and poetry, Aqnazar is ...

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Sanam Uyghur Ensemble is a group of musicians from Uyghur diaspora in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. They perform classical Mughams and festivity songs. ...

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With her refined, richly ornamented delivery, singer and dutar player Ziyada Sheripova has created a personal and distinctive style-now emulated by younger women in Karakalpakstan (North-west Uzbekistan), within a performance genre that was traditionally the purview of men. ...

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Zarsanga is a famous Pashto singer widely known as The Queen Of Pashtun Folklore. She was born in 1946 at Zafar Mamakhel, a small village of Lakki Marwat. She belongs to a nomadic tribe called Kutanree (Kutan) of African origin. They travel between Pashtun area from Punjab and Sindh. They don't settle permanently in one place. Their main profession is singing. ...

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Zarsanga is a famous Pashto singer widely known as The Queen Of Pashtun Folklore. She was born in 1946 at Zafar Mamakhel, a small village of Lakki Marwat. She belongs to a nomadic tribe called Kutanree (Kutan) of African origin. They travel between Pashtun area from Punjab and Sindh. They don't settle permanently in one place. Their main profession is singing. ...

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Zarsanga is a famous Pashto singer widely known as The Queen Of Pashtun Folklore. She was born in 1946 at Zafar Mamakhel, a small village of Lakki Marwat. She belongs to a nomadic tribe called Kutanree (Kutan) of African origin. They travel between Pashtun area from Punjab and Sindh. They don't settle permanently in one place. Their main profession is singing. ...

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Zarsanga is a famous Pashto singer widely known as The Queen Of Pashtun Folklore. She was born in 1946 at Zafar Mamakhel, a small village of Lakki Marwat. She belongs to a nomadic tribe called Kutanree (Kutan) of African origin. They travel between Pashtun area from Punjab and Sindh. They don't settle permanently in one place. Their main profession is singing. ...

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Akbar Khamisu Khan, 1976, born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he is a son of great alghoza player Khamiso Khan. Algoze (Punjabi: ਅਲਗੋਜ਼ੇ) is a pair of Punjabi woodwind instruments adopted by Sindhi, Rajasthani and Baloch folk musicians, also called Jorhi, Do Nally, Satara or Ngoze. It resembles a pair of wooden flutes. The musician plays it by using three fingers on each side. Sound ...

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Akbar Khamisu Khan, 1976, born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he is a son of great alghoza player Khamiso Khan. Algoze (Punjabi: ਅਲਗੋਜ਼ੇ) is a pair of Punjabi woodwind instruments adopted by Sindhi, Rajasthani and Baloch folk musicians, also called Jorhi, Do Nally, Satara or Ngoze. It resembles a pair of wooden flutes. The musician plays it by using three fingers on each side. Sound ...

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Akbar Khamisu Khan, 1976, born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he is a son of great alghoza player Khamiso Khan. Algoze (Punjabi: ਅਲਗੋਜ਼ੇ) is a pair of Punjabi woodwind instruments adopted by Sindhi, Rajasthani and Baloch folk musicians, also called Jorhi, Do Nally, Satara or Ngoze. It resembles a pair of wooden flutes. The musician plays it by using three fingers on each side. Sound ...

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Mesmerizing Fargana Qasimova performing Mugam Rast accompanied with virtuoso instrumentalists from Azerbaijan. Babel Med, Marseille, 2014 ...

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Rahim Takhori son of Mohammad Ali was born in 1934. He is from Khulm city (Tashqurghan). He spent most of his time with his family in Takhar province. He was taught playing Ghichak and Dambora by Takhari teachers such as Mollah Mohammad Azam Khan. He died in 2007. ...

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Rahim Takhori son of Mohammad Ali was born in 1934. He is from Khulm city (Tashqurghan). He spent most of his time with his family in Takhar province. He was taught playing Ghichak and Dambora by Takhari teachers such as Mollah Mohammad Azam Khan. He died in 2007. ...

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Zainidin Imanaliev illustrates an older performance tradition of art of Kyrgyz komuz - the virtuoso soloist who is at once master instrumentalist, singer, and entertainer. ...

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An authentic dance of Mohiniso Majitova born into an artist family in Bukhara, her grandmother is Olia Hanum, the performer from an old Bukharan family of singers and dancers. In her interview Mohiniso Majitova says that she learned dancing from her grandmother, visiting local celebrations and international concerts. Mohiniso works as a nurse in local hospital, but a need to dance is ...

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Nobovar was born in Komsomolobod in the Rasht valley of Tajikistan. His parents are orinally from Dehrushan village of Rushan District of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, in the Pamirs. Himself being a Rushani speaker (one of the many Pamiri languages), he sings mostly in Tajiki and Rushani. ...

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