Pickin' A Shuffle Alla Turca; Another Dream In Nihavend; Talk About A Turkish Blues; A Poignant Truth; No Big Deal. Turkish-American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and New England Conservatory ...

Grammy-nominated Turkish composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol would like to introduce his one-of-a-kind dream instrument. It’s been decades in the making, and on Wednesday, March 26, his ...

BEIRUT: Wailing high above a stomping beat, crunching out cacophonous chords or twanging frenetically: It's the oud, but not as you may know it. Mehdi Haddab and his accomplices, collectively known as ...

Michael Onsy with Albert Mansour, a popular oud-maker in Lebanon facebook / Michael Onsy You’ve probably heard it many times over and didn’t even realise it. But it accompanies just about every type ...

Jazz has long operated with something like an open-door policy, absorbing influences from classical, folk, rock, and beyond. Turkish-American composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol extends that tradition in a ...