Contemporary Music
2005 to 2011
Bang on a Can Summer Institute Alumni
2011
Mansur Saparbaev (Uzbekistan) - dutar, rubab, tar, doira and sings
Nodirjon Ibragimov (Uzbekistan) - Uzbek rubab and rubab prima
Juma Radjabov (Uzbekistan) - gizhzhak
2010
Batir Dosimbetov (Uzbekistan) - Uzbek flute nay
Kakhramon Bazarov (Uzbekistan) - stringed rubab
Ravshan Tukhtamishev - Uzbek chang
2009
Kambar Kalendarov (Kyrgyzstan)
Kutmanaaly Sultanbekov (Kyrgyzstan)
Feruza Ochilova (Uzbekistan)
2007
Farruh Akramov (Uzbekistan) – composer
2006
Husniddin Atoev (Uzbekistan) – stringed rubob and uod, and Uzbek mouth organ, the chang-qobuz
Abror Mansurov (Uzbekistan) – Uzbek and European percussion instruments
2005
Sharofiddin Akhrorov (Uzbekistan) – traditional Uzbek and European percussion instruments
Shavkat Matyakulov (Uzbekistan) – Uzbek flutes, the sunray and kornay
Jakhongir Shukurov (Uzbekistan) – composer
November 2007
Bang on a Can musicians – Robert Black, Evan Zyporyn, David Cossin, Mark Stewart and Kenny Savelson – performed and conducted master classes in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
June 2007
MASHRIQ, a new music ensemble from Uzbekistan, traveled to New York to perform at Bang on a Can’s annual live Marathon concert. Founded in 2002, MASHRIQ combines traditional Uzbek folk melodies with contemporary music from around the world. While in New York, they played a concert of “Uzbek Bluegrass” with young US musicians from BoaC’s Summer Institute.
2005
Bang on a Can musicians – Robert Black, David Cosin, Kenny Savelson, Mark Stewart, Phillipa Thompson and Evan Ziporyn – traveled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Almaty, Kyrgyzstan. A highlight of the trip was a joint performance that capped off a day-long workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Led by Bang on a Can musicians, 20 young seminar attendees joined in a performance of “In C,” a composition by presenter Terry Riley. In Bishkek, students at the seminar were thrilled to learn that BoaC’s musical style, which local organizers had billed simply as “jazz”, is something altogether different from the classical jazz that they were familiar with.
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