Lavta by Periklis Papapetropoulos
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July 2 - 7, 2012 The Lavta is an instrument which, despite preceding the oud in Ottoman music, disappeared entirely at the beginning of the 20th century. During the last 25 years however, in both Greece and Turkey, much interest has been expressed for this very versatile and beautiful instrument. Especially in Greece today there are many lavta players of whom the foremost exponents are without doubt Periklis Papapetropoulos and Sokratis Sinopoulos.
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Music and perception by Christos Barbas

July 2 - 7, 2012
In this seminar, we will deal with the way we hear, the way we perceive music. As any amateur or professional musician can attest, music is a challenge which may demand one hundred percent of our attention and presence so that we may cope with a demanding circumstance, be it a lesson, a concert or a simple musical intercourse. But is this always the case? Don’t our fingers sometimes carry on their own while our mind sails for distant oceans?!
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Bouzouki by Giorgos Manolakis

July 9 - 14, 2012
Giorgos Manolakis was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1982. He started practicing the laouto at the age of 8 under the guidance of his father, Kostas Zacharopoulos, who was one of the foremost laouto players of his generation. Six years later he started practicing the bouzouki with many great masters of the instrument.
Today Giorgos is considered to be one of the most important virtuosos of his generation on these two instruments.
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Fretless Guitar & Kopuz by Erkan Oğur

16 - 21 July, 2012
The Musical Workshop Labyrinth is very pleased to be able to present a seminar this summer with Erkan Oğur. Erkan Ogur is one of the most significant figures in Turkish music in recent decades and his work with the fretless guitar as well as with a special type of saz known as kopuz has been nothing short of revolutionary. Erkan Ogur is not merely a significant virtuoso, however. His arrangements of Turkish traditional songs have totally changed the way in which musicians approach this material. These arrangements rely on a unique aesthetic approach which brings together in an exceptionally harmonious manner both strictly traditional as well as highly original and contemporary elements. This seminar however is definitely not for beginners, it is especially for particularly advanced musicians who are interested and experienced in pursuing a creative and innovative approach to traditional material.
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Tanbur and makam by Murat Aydemir

July 16 - 21, 2012
Murat Aydemir was born on October 23, 1971 in Hanover, Germany. In 1982, he started his studies at Istanbul Technical University Turkish Music Government Conservatory. During his studies at the Conservatory, which lasted for ten years, he studied tanbur with Necip Gülses and in 1992 he graduated from Instrument Education department.
During 1989, he was a member of Cultural Ministry’s Istanbul Government Classical Turkish Music Ensemble as a guest musician, whose general artistic director was Necdet Yaşar. He had opportunities to perform in concerts with masters of Turkish music such as Bekir Sıdkı Sezgin, Alâeddin Yavaşca, Erol Deran, İhsan Özgen, Cinuçen Tanrıkorur and Necdet Yaşar.
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Kemence by Derya Turkan & Socrates Sinopoulos

July 16 - 21, 2012
Derya Türkan is a young master of classical Turkish kemenche. He plays improvisational as well as the Ottoman classical music repertoire.
Türkan was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1973. He grew up in a musical family and his first music lessons were with the well known Turkish cellist Firat Kiziltug. Türkan attended and graduated from the Turkish Music Conservatory Instruments Education Department of the Istanbul Technical University, where he studied with Ihsan Özgen, an internationally recognized Turkish musician. In 1990, Türkan was invited to perform as a guest musician by the Turkish Cultural Ministry's Istanbul National Turkish Music Ensemble, directed by Necdet Yasar.
Socrates Sinopoulos was born in Athens. He studied classical guitar, Byzantine music and folk music at the Kara School and the Tsiamoulis Institute. In 1988, he started learning the lute and kemence (the lyre of Istanbul) with Ross Daly, and a year later joined the group Labyrinth.
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