Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
FREE
Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present Composer Spotlight, a series of talks and performances by composers, musicians, and scholars of new and innovative music every second Wednesday of each month. For more information about Composer Spotlight artists and the series, click here.
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Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composer Forum present
Composer Spotlight:
Münir Beken & Gus Denhard
Oil and Vinegar: New Music and Non-Western traditions
Wed, September 9, 7:30pm
Münir Beken will give a lecture-demonstration on the use of non-western musical instruments in new music. He will give live and recorded examples from his own music, particularly the use of Turkish ud in Western traditional settings. Lutenist Gus Denhard will join him to perform examples from their recent collaboration and their 2008 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project.
Münir Nurettin Beken, ud virtuoso and composer, studied composition with Cemal Resit Rey, Yalçın Tura, and Stuart Smith, and participated in composition workshops with such luminaries as George Crumb, Lukas Foss, Philip Glass, Roger Reynolds, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen. The world premier of his Blue Monologue for solo violin was performed at Carnegie Hall. This year Pacific Serenades Chamber Music Ensemble performed the world premier of his most recent composition, Memories of a Shoehorn, in Los Angeles, and last April Issa Sonus Chamber Music Ensemble featured several of his compositions in two concerts in New York City. Münir Beken is currently Assistant Professor of theory and composition in Ethnomusicology Department at University of California Los Angeles.
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