The role of the orchestra in a song-centered tradition.

Periklis Papapetropoulos, a renowned musician of eastern traditions,
will be in Brussels for a unique workshop for eastern music. The
workshop will focus mainly to Greek and Turkish traditional songs,
analyzing the basic theory
of their makam (dromoi) and their rhythm.

The workshop is open to singers and musicians
(lavta, saz, ney, violin, qanun, lyra, percussions, etc.) of all levels.
Periklis Papapetropoulos grew up on the island of Crete. His first
musical experiences were with Cretan traditional music and at the age of
16, he participated in village festivals as part of the group of
Psarantonis playing laouto and bulgari. In 1985 he met Ross Daly and
studied saz and tanbur with him for several years. He is a very
experienced and renowned teacher of saz and lavta having taught at the
Experimental Musical Gymnasium-Lyceum of Pallini, the society for the
dissemination of National Music, the Academy of Simon Karas, and the
Musical Workshop “Labyrinth.” He has many accomplished students who are
today amongst the finest instrumentalists in Greece. He has recorded 2
solo CDs with his compositions.

He has collaborated with many great musicians of the traditional music
scene such as Mehmet Erenler, Talip Ozkan, Paco Penia, Djamchid
Chemirani, Kabul Ensemble, Huun-Huur-Tu, Naseer Shamma, Dariush Talai,
Hamid Reza Khabbazi, Pedram Kahavar-Zamini, Dhruba Ghosh, Rufus
Cappadocia, Vassilis Soukas, Kostas Mountakis, Nikos Saragoudas, Chronis
Aidonides, Stelios Petrakis, Giorgos Kotsinis, Domna Samiou, Christos
Tsiamoulis, Christos Sikkis, Petros Tambouris and many more.

Price: 30E pp
Participants: min. 3, max 20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDbGVM26SGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGcWcDBr7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nwnv1nQQuQ

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