Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/08/2022
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Location
Diyanet Center of America
9610 Good Luck Road
Lanham
Maryland
20706
United States

The Diyanet Center of America Presents
Conversation Through Ottoman/Turkish Classical Music

Renowned artists from Turkey will be performing at the DCA Auditorium on May 8th, 2022 at 5:30PM.

This event will be limited seats and social distance applied.

For free registration use the form below and prepare your confirmation at the entrance.

THIS EVENT IS FULL

Necati Çelik 
Born in 1955 in the province of Konya, home of the Mevlevi order, Necati Celik learned to play the baglama, a folkloric long-necked lute at the age of 7. The early 1970s marked the beginning of his acquaintance with the oud, and in 1973, he participated in the Mevlevi rituals of Konya as an oud player for the first time over. Here, he meet some of Turkey`s most oud masters, who contributed to the
development of his command over the instrument.

Having experienced difficulty in obtaining quality instruction while learning how to play the oud, Mr. Celik decided to establish his, own private school of music ‘in l975 in Konya, where he taught oud to hundreds of students.

In 1983, he founded the Konya Municipal Turkish Music Choir. Two years later, he became an oud instructor in the Music Department of Konya’s Seljuk University, where he remained for a year. Later, in 1986, he became an oud artist in the Turkish Ministry of Culture’s State Classical Music Ensemble; and at the same time, taught oud at the State Conservatory of Aegean University.

In 1987, he gave 8 concerts in Tunisia. 1989 was the year when Mr.Celik joined the Istanbul State Classical Turkish Music Ensemble. He also became the primary oud artist of the Necdet-Yashar ensemble, with whom he performed on a monthly basis in Istanbul, as well as in many provinces of Turkey.

Mr. Celik is a frequent guest on Turkish national television and radio programs, and he has performed in many of the universities of France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Tunisia, Morocco, Malaysia, Canada, and the U.S.A. Acting on an invitation received in 1993, he journeyed to the U.S. for solo performances. Since then he has given oud lessons and recitals every year in California and New Mexico and teaches and performs every August at the Middle Eastern Music Camp held in Mendocino, California. In 1997, he was invited to participate in a workshop at the University of Israel in Jerusalem, where he taught oud and Turkish classical music. At the end of the workshop, Mr.Celik gave 2 concerts with his students.
Necati Celik is married with 2 children and is currently retired from the Ministry of Culture’s State Classical Turkish Music Ensemble in Istanbul.

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Ridvan Aydinli
Ridvan Aydinli is a ney player, singer, and MA student in Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. His musical and research interests include Ottoman/Turkish music, Byzantine music and notation, improvisation, and transformation of musical traditions. He received his BA degree in economics at Boğaziçi University, and MA degree with the thesis “The usul concept in Karamanlidika sources of Ottoman/Turkish music” in the department of Turkish Religious Music at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. Aydinli performed concerts and recorded albums with various ensembles in several countries.

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