
New Music from Turkey
The harp has always been fascinating to me not only because I love my instrument but also because it offers a multitude of...
Şirin Pancaroğlu
Praised by the Washington Post as a “major talent of international caliber”, for Şirin Pancaroğlu, discovering a variety of musical identities for the harp is a central endeavor. Trained as a classical musician, the leading harpist of Turkey is equally active in the realm of Turkish traditional music, improvisation, electronic music, tango and semi-staged performances as she is in mainstream harp repertoire to which she contributes with new works commissioned for her. Regular collaborations with performers and composers of diverse backgrounds have led Pancaroğlu to cross boundaries between musical styles often resulting in music that has been perceived as opening the path to new genres.
The harp has always been fascinating to me not only because I love my instrument but also because it offers a multitude of...
The use of the harp in conjunction with Turkish music is a subject which has been at the center of my work since...
Composing, I believe, is a direct result of my performance interests.
Tango is more than music and more than dance for me. It is a partial embodiment of family history as well.
A tiny Middle-Eastern lap-harp, by the name of çeng which had dissapeared in 17th century is resurrected from its ashes to display its...