2023

A BENEFIT CONCERT TO SUPPORT THE EARTHQUAKE RELIEF EFFORTS IN TURKEY DÜNYA Ensemble directed by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol performs classical Turkish music, Turkish Sufi music and Turkish music influenced Jazz Friday, February 10, 8:00pm, First Church in Cambridge – 11 Garden Street, Cambridge (the funds collected at the concert were distributed evenly between the Bridge to Türkiye […]

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Music is the art of arranging sounds in time through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all human societies. General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts […]

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Music is the art of arranging sounds in time through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all human societies. General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts […]

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Music is the art of arranging sounds in time through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all human societies. General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts […]

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Music is the art of arranging sounds in time through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all human societies. General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts […]

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Music is the art of arranging sounds in time through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all human societies. General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts […]

2022

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol & the DÜNYA Ensemble performing classical Ottoman/Turkish music, original jazz compositions & introducing the SANLIKOL Renaissance 17 with Beth Bahia Cohen, yaylı tanbur, Burcu Güleç, voice, percussion,  James Heazlewood-Dale, bass, Bertram Lehmann, percussion,  George Lernis, drums, percussion, santur, Jerry Sabatini, trumpet, flugel horn, and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, Renaissance 17, Continuum Fingerboard, piano, duduk, ney, ud, voice […]

2021

FALL 2021 SANLIKOL featuring Dave LIEBMAN Presented by GLOBAL ARTS LIVE Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol presents ground-breaking jazz orchestra and trio music steeped in Middle Eastern cadences that draw from Turkish, mystical Sufi rituals, Sephardic Jewish musical elements, and more. In this double album release event, first Sanlıkol and his trio […]

2020

SPRING 2020   Othello in the Seraglio (film vr. screening)  a coffeehouse opera based on Shakespeare Location, Date/Time, Price:  -February 27, University of California Santa Barbara, Pollock Theater,  7pm. You can watch the post-screening discussion with Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol here.

2019

Fall 2019    JEWS AND SUFIS: Shared Musical Traditions with Edwin Seroussi — program — Since at least the 16th century, the Turkish maftirim repertoire — Hebrew devotional poetry set to Turkish makam music for use in the synagogue — demonstrates the deep relationships Ottoman Jews established with members of Muslim mystical […]