Asia Society Texas's Encore Series brings you the very best of our in-person programs — in bite-size form. Revisit highlights from events you've enjoyed live, or sample exciting new performances, all ...

This program takes place in-person at Asia Society Texas Center. Asia Society Texas Center and Hoppa Project present the fourth annual Turkish Music Festival, featuring master clarinetist Ismail ...

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — When the powerful earthquake rocked her home in early February, 18-year-old Sidra Mohammed Ali woke up and thought of one thing: her music school — was it OK? The next day, as ...

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 ...

Middle Eastern instrumentation, modes and rhythms have long served as source material for jazz musicians wishing to extend their musical boundaries. In the early days of jazz, an "oriental tinge was ...

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol plays a traditional oud at his studio in Belmont, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Grammy-nominated Turkish composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol fuses traditional Turkish music with ...

Comparing the top-ten song charts in Turkey and the United States is not exactly a run-of-the-mill subject for a sociolinguistics research paper. But it made an ideal topic for someone who is fluent ...

Nasip Kısmet is a term used by Turkish people to describe the idea that “what is meant to happen will happen,” or “destiny.” This is the term a group of Turkish-Hungarian musicians in Budapest chose ...

Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir. Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on ...

Step into Meyhouse, and you’re stepping into more than just a restaurant—you’re entering a living expression of Turkish culture. While many associate Turkish cuisine with kebabs alone, it’s a deeply ...

Grammy-nominated Turkish composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol fuses traditional Turkish music with other genres and styles on a custom... Turkish composer and musician transforms his oud to let ...