Iran’s Keyhan Kalhor and Erdal Erzincan, Turkish bağlama player will jointly perform in a concert in Izmir, Turkey on August 27.
They had already appeared in many joint concerts in 2004 around the world and published an album titled Wind and had also performed a joint concert in Iran in 2010.
Erdal Erzincan (born 1971, Erzurum) is a Turkish folk music musician, composer, and singer. He moved to Istanbul in 1981 and attended in bağlama lessons at Arif Sağ Music School in 1985. In 1989, he started to study musical science in Istanbul Technical University. He made research on selpe method, which is a bağlama playing method without plectrum that reminds tapping method on guitar.
Bağlama is a stringed musical instrument shared by various cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean, Near East, and Central Asia.
It is sometimes referred to as the saz (originally Persian) although the term "saz" actually refers to a family of plucked string instruments, long-necked lutes used in Ottoman classical music, Turkish folk music, Azeri music, Kurdish music, Assyrian music, Armenian music, and in parts of Syria, Iraq and the Balkan.
Instruments resembling modern bağlama have been found in archaeological excavations of Sumerian and Hittite mounds in Anatolia dating before Common Era, and in ancient Greek works.
Kayhan Kalhor was born in Kermanshah but grew up in Tehran. He began studying music at the age of 7. By 13, he was playing in the National Orchestra of Radio and Television of Iran. Continuing his music studies under various teachers, he studied in the Persian radif tradition and also traveled to study in the northern part of Khorasan province, where music traditions have Kurdish and Turkic influences as well as Persian. At a musical conservatory in Tehran about the age of 20, Kalhor worked under the directorship of Mohammad-Reza Lotfi who is from north of Iran. Kalhor also travelled in the northwestern provinces of Iran. He later moved to Rome and Ottawa to study European classical music.
Kalhor is a world recognized Iranian musician who had been nominated for Grammy Award Grammy, is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest.
Kamancheh is an Iranian bowed string instrument, the chief Persian bowed instrument, and is played both in Persian art and folk music.
According to Persian sources, it seems that Kamancheh had only two strings. Though no one knows when the third string had been added to this instrument, but it is believed that in Ghajar period, Kamancheh had three strings.
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