GUEST ARTIST LECTURE-RECITAL: The Revival of the Ceng - Sirin Pancaroglu and the Simdi Ensemble
Praised by the Washington Post as a “major talent of international caliber”, harpist Sirin Pancaroclu has been involved with the revival of the medieval Near-Eastern lap harp called the çeng. Ms. Pancaroglu will lecture on the çeng and together with singer Bora Uymaz and Mehmet Yalgin, they will perform hymns, semais and songs from the Turco-Ottoman repertoire as the Simdi Ensemble (sirinpancaroglu.com/en/).
Sponsored in part by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, and the European Union Center.
Free and open to the public.