Odissi Dance Festival

A group of 13 dancers and musicians from India led by internationally acclaimed Guru Gangadhar Pradhan & Aruna Mohanty

4 PM Sunday, October 23, 2005

Smith Recital Hall (Music Building)
San Diego State University, San Diego

General Admission $20, Seniors $15,
Children 6-12 $10

For tickets and information call
(760) 436-8277 

Sponsored by the Center for World Music

Integral Asia

Japanese / Indian Crossover

T. M. Hoffman (shakuhachi), Abhijit Banerjee (tabla), and Reiko Obata (koto), with special guest artist Kourosh Taghavi - (Persian setar)

Fri Sep 16, 8:00 pm, The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr, La Jolla

Tickets: General $18, Students/Seniors $10
Info: (619) 318-1286

Sponsored by the Center for World Music

Turkish Classical Music

Ahenk Duo

Ahenk, which means harmony in Turkish, represents the musical union of Murat Aydemir on tanbur (long-necked lute) and Derya Türkan on classical kemençe (3-stringed Turkish fiddle). The Ahenk Duo performs well-known works of Turkish classical music by such masters as Tanburi Cemil Bey, Udi Serif Muhittin Targan, and Tanburi Necip Gülses. Murat Aydemir is best known for his work with Incesaz, one of the popular combos performing new interpretations of Turkish popular and classical music. He has performed with the prestigious Ministry of Culture¹s Government Ensemble and Classical Music Chorus in Istanbul. Derya Türkan is a master kemençe (kemenche) player whose musical life is dedicated to Tanburi Cemil Bey. He has performed around the world alongside such masters as Alâeddin Yavasça, Bekir Sidki Sezgin, and Erol Deran.

Co-sponsored by the Center for World Music and the Turkish Americans of Southern California San Diego

Sun Sep 4, 8:00 pm
The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr, La Jolla

Tickets: General $20, Students/Seniors $10
Info: (858) 349-2609 sdturks@sdturks.org

The Grandmaster of Persian Music:
M.R. Lotfi in concert

A Celebration of Rumi and the Music of Sufism, featuring Mohammad Reza Lotfi (tar, setar, kamancheh, daf) with Mehrdad A'raabi (tombak, daf).

Co-sponsored by the Center for World Music and the Persian Cultural Center

Sat June 25, 8:00 pm
SDSU Music Dept, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182
Tickets: General $35, Students $15
Info: (858) 653-0336, (619) 318-1286

Sat July 16, 8:00 pm
Crystal Cove Auditorium, UC Irvine


Tickets: General $60, $40, Students $20
Info: (949) 552-8844, (714) 402-2120

"My first response upon hearing Lotfi’s music is astonishment. As he plays he opens a path and finally a road to that place inside us of enormous assurance; such assurance paradoxically often brings tears to the eyes."
·  Robert Bly, 1996

Concerts at San Diego State University

Mondays, 7:30
J. Dayton Smith Recital Hall, San Diego State University
General Admission $10.

February 7, 2005
Music of Iran: Darvak; Farhad Bahrami, director

February 14, 2005
Early European Court Music of Spain: Alfonso X Medieval Ensemble; Curt Bouterse, director

February 21, 2005
Music and Dance of South India: Arpana Dance Company; Ramya Harishankar, director

February 28, 2005
Music of China: Pui-Yuen Lui, Chu-Yao Liu, and Qi-Chao Liu

March 14, 2005
Music of Finland and America: Merja Soria and Curt Bouterse

March 21, 2005
Music and Dance of Ghana: Ho-Asogli; Kwame Degbor and John Flood, directors

April 4, 2005
Music and Dance of Brazil: Andy Villas-Boas, director

April 11, 2005
Music of Andean South America: Sariri. Francisco Duchicela, director

May 9, 2005
Music and Dance of Java: SDSU Javanese Gamelan. Djoko Walujo, director

An Evening of Persian & Kurdish Music

"The Art of Tasnif and Chahar-Mezrab"

Kourosh Taghavi (Setar), Kourosh Khamoushian (Voice & Tanbur) and Friends

Saturday April 9, 2005 8:00 pm
The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr, La Jolla

Tickets: General $15, Students $10
Info: (858) 653-0336, (619) 318-1286

Co-sponsored by the Center for World Music and the Persian Cultural Center

International Music & Poetry Vigil

Poets Ali Ashouri and Al Howard.
Music by Darvak (Iran), Abaa Koma (Ghana), and special guests.

Thurs Mar 17, 2005 8:00 pm
Voz Alta (1544 Broadway, downtown San Diego)
(619) 531-8950

Sponsored by the Center for World Music

Neyreez Ensemble & Darvak Ensemble

Neyreez Ensemble & Darvak Ensemble
Persian folk and classical music

Sun Feb 6, 7:00 pm
SDSU Music Dept, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182



Darvak will perform an evening of classical music with visiting guests Neyreez. Neyreez Music School was started by tombak-master Pejman Haddadi and santur-master Dr. Manuchehr Sadeghi (of UCLA). Teaching in Orange County and L.A. since 2002, Mehrdad A'raabi (an accomplished kamancheh and tombak player) has run the school and created an ensemble from their best students over the last two years. Neyreez Ensemble today consists of 10 players of diverse backgrounds: kids, women, men, Persians, Armenians, and Americans playing 2 kamanchehs, 3 tombaks, 1 santur, 1 tar, 1 daf, and 1 percussion. Listeners will enjoy nicely-arranged lively Persian folk music (Bakhtiari, Khorasani, Kurdish).