German-Turkish composers will be the guests of the university's composers' colloquium "Music of our Time" on six concert evenings. Jazz musician and producer Mehmet Ergin will kick things off on Friday, 19 April, 6.00 pm, in the Chamber Music Hall (Haarentor campus, Building A 11)
Turkish music in Germany? Is it the "singing rubbish man" Abdullah Eryilmaz, the Turkish workers' choir of Tahsin Incirci in West Berlin (1973-1979), or the Alevi "B?n Y?l?n Türküsü", which performed in the Cologne Arena in 2000 with 1246 Ba?lama players? Is it the flourishing oriental hip hop scene from Cartel to Tarkan's "pop müzik", the occasional "Turkish music school" like the one in Oldenburg and otherwise "Arabesk" from the kebab shop? By no means! "The fact that there are German-Turkish composers on the art music scene whose musical language often differs from the globalised musical language of the avant-garde in a characteristic way is hardly known among Germans and Turks alike," explains Oldenburg composer Violeta Dinescu. These composers do not primarily serve the music market of Turkish migrants. Rather, their works are aimed at the relatively small national and international "art music market", adds musicologist Wolfgang Martin Stroh.
The concert series "German-Turkish Composers" will host composers and musicians who deal musically with their migration background. This happens in a variety of ways: From the use of Turkish instruments, which are unknown to Western art music, to the use of Turkish-Arabic rhythms and scales, to quotations of Turkish melodies or rhythms. The composers will give an insight into their working methods and talk about their work - also beyond the concert hall. Admission is free.
The concert series "German-Turkish Composers" is supported by the Integration Officer of the City of Oldenburg, the University Society (UGO), the Institute of Music and the Hotel Wieting. The organisers are the musicologists and composers Prof. Violeta Dinescu and Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Martin Stroh.
Further dates in the concert series "German-Turkish Composers" (Fridays, 6.00 pm, University of Oldenburg, Haarentor campus, Chamber Music Hall, Building A 11):
26 April: Ali N. Askin
3 May: Zeynep Gedizlio?lu
10 May: Ludger Vollmer
17 May: Taner Akyol
24 May: Marc Sinan
