In the lecture, Tev Stevig draws on his 20-year exploration of makam-based music to define Turkish makam and explain how the Western musical experience can both help and hinder our understanding of this music. The New York Music Daily calls Tev Stevig "one of the world's most brilliantly individualistic guitarists" and the Boston Globe says of ... Read more

Tev Stevig and Michael K. Harrist present a program of original modal music inspired by their experiences with the folk and classical music traditions of Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, the Levant, Iran, Afghanistan, and North India. At turns romantic and elegant, vivacious and playful, the music of Çeşni Duo is grounded in the flavors (çeşniler) ... Read more

  The Zefíra Trio, featuring Olga Patramanska-Bell, violin; Ashima Scripp, cello; and Eleanor Perrone, piano, presents a concert entitled Colorful Outpouring: Music as a Universal Language of Expressing Human Emotion. The members of Zefíra have established themselves as solo artists and chamber musicians of the highest standard. They are top prize winners of many national ... Read more