Turkish music
Day 3 Friday 7|03
Turkish music
Day 5 Sunday 9|03
For fiddle players with at least intermediate instrument skills
You can register for workshops by day and are free to attend multiple sessions with the same teacher
10:00 – 12:30 & 14:00 – 17:00 (Sunday till 16:30)
Serdar Pazarcıoğlu
Serdar Pazarcıoğlu is one of the most talented Turkish Roma violinists of his generation. He comes from a family of professional musicians from Akhisar, in the Izmir region. Like many Romani people in Turkey, his ancestors migrated from northern Greece in 1923 during the population exchanges between Greeks and Turks.
As a teenager, Serdar began his career performing at weddings and in Turkish classical music ensembles. Very quickly, he sought to broaden his horizons by delving into Indian music (Lakshminarayana Subramaniam), Balkan styles and Gipsy jazz (Stephane Grapelli). In the 2000s, he moved to Istanbul, where he performed regularly with artists such as Göksel Baktagir, Yurdal Tokcan, Yinon Muallem, as well as in the arabesk (Turkish pop) orchestras of Ibrahim Tatlises and Kibariye. He is also frequently sought after for studio recordings in film scores, pop music, and Turkish Roma music.
Serdar is dedicated to passing on his musical knowledge to both Turkish and international violinists. He teaches at the “Koro” in Akhisar, a center devoted to Turkish classical music. He has given Ottoman music workshops in
France, Greece and Belgium. Ruben Tenenbaum will assist him during the workshops of Fiddlers on the Move. He fell in love with classical and popular Turco-Ottoman music and studied with
Serdar.
photo © Amy Fajardo
