Tamburi Mundi Workshops in Istanbul

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Tamburi Mundi presents a workshop week-end in the center of Istanbul (Beyoğlu), full of Turkish rhythms, darbuka, frame drums, body percussion and flamenco rhythms for frame drums. With Murat Coşkun, Bettina Castaño and Mehmet Akatay. The French college Lycée Français St. Benoît, a cultural and cosmopolitan school full of tradition, is the supporting co-operation partner for this project.

The Turkish master drummer Mehmet Akatay is a demanded studio musician, live performer and popular lecturer far beyond the borders of Istanbul. His virtuoso play on darbuka, riqq, frame drums and cajon is not only estimated by stars like Tarkan, Sezen Aksu and others he had accompanied on their world tours. In his workshop, he scoops out of the richness of Turkish music culture and gives an overview over Turkish rhythms. The course addresses to participants with basic knowledge in darbuka or frame drum play.

Murat Coşkun is a world percussionist and he works as a guest lecturer for Oriental percussion and frame drums including for the Freiburg Music University and at the Popakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (lecturer for mediterranean percussion) and gives international master classes. As an author and teacher, he developed his own teaching method. Murat Coskun is the founder and director of the international frame drum festival Tamburi Mundi which he organizes since 13 years in Germany.

The Swiss flamenco dancer Bettina Castaño lives and works in Seville (Spain). Her technical preciseness, paired with an effervescent joy of music and its manifold ways of expression, made her to be one of the most important representatives of flamenco dance in the new generation.
In her percussion workshop, Bettina Castaño shows the transfer of flamenco rhythms on frame drums. The course addresses to players with good knowledge in frame drum play, who would like to enlarge their repertoire. Furthermore she offers two flamenco workshops: one for beginners and one for advanced dancers.

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