Commissioned by The Boston Cello Quartet. Composed in 2014.
Recorded at Futura Productions in Roslindale, MA by The Boston Cello Quartet.
"The multiculturalism is not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized" The Boston Globe
Cello Quartet
Commissioned by The Boston Cello Quartet. Composed in 2014.
Recorded at Futura Productions in Roslindale, MA by The Boston Cello Quartet.
Türki beray-ı Aşıkan-ı Hüda / A Song for those in Love with God
text: Şahin (17th c.) music: anonymous
Transcribed by Ali Ufki
Edited by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, voice, üç telli
Robert Labaree, çeng, voice
Recorded and mixed by John Weston at Futura Productions
Choir with soloist
Dedicated to the loving memory of Dr. Hüseyin Parkan Sanlıkol
Composed by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
Text by Karacaoğlan
Commissioned by Dünya Müziği Derneği
Performed by NEC Chamber Singers on Monday, April 25, 2016 at NEC’s Jordan hall
Erica J. Washburn, conductor
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, soloist
Richard Rivale, piano
Clarinet & Piano
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE from “Turkish Music Now” at Hoppa Project’s 2nd Annual Turkish Music Festival in Houston – hoppaproject.com
Julian Hernandez, clarinet
Erberk Eryılmaz, piano
Filmed on Saturday, January 19 2019 at Rice University, Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Duncan Recital Hall Organized in partnership with American Turkish Association of Houston and sponsored by Asia Society Texas Center and Rice University
Flute & Piano
An impressionist composition (1998).
featuring,
Burak Beşir, flute
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, piano
Flute & Piano
An impressionist composition (1998).
featuring,
Burak Beşir, flute
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, piano
I am excited to announce a short tour I will be doing with my unique jazz band which pairs Turkish instruments such as zurna (double reed wind), ney (end-blown flute), kös (large kettledrums) and nekkare (small kettledrums) with a 6-horn jazz combo to perform my film inspired and innovative Turkish music influenced compositions in order to promote my new album.
Locations, Dates/Times, Prices:
Wednesday, October 1, 8:00 PM – Scullers, Cambridge, MA, $25, purchase tickets
Thursday, October 2, 7:30 PM – RISD Auditorium, Providence, RI, $20, on the day of the concert $25, purchase tickets
Friday, October 3, 8:00 PM – Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY, seated $25/standing $20,purchase tickets
The band is featuring,
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, piano, keyboards, continuum, zurna, ney, voice
Jerry Sabatini, trumpet, flugel horn
Jeff Claassen, trumpet flugel horn
Mark Zaleski, alto sax., clarinet
Aaron Henry, tenor & soprano sax.
Chris Gagne, trombone
Jared Sims, baritone sax., bass clarinet
Utar Artun, piano, keyboards
Phil Sargent, electric guitar
Fernando Huergo, electric bass
Bertram Lehmann, drums
George Lernis, kettledrums, frame drums, percussion
Whatsnext, my new large jazz ensemble album, is now available for purchase through Bandcamp and iTunes or you can stream it through Spotify.
Bandcamp CD:
http://dunya.bandcamp.com/album/whatsnext
iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/whatsnext/id826720935?uo=4
spotify:
https://play.spotify.com/album/1X7lGXksIymLMvfDSijd93
Regattabar:
http://www.getshowtix.com/regattabar/moreinfo.cgi?id=3113
DromNYC:
http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/486289?utm_medium=bks
Whatsnext
CD Release Concerts
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol will present his modern jazz compositions for big band as well as compositions specifically influenced by Turkish music for the jazz combo from his new album.
Locations, Dates/Times, Prices:
Thurs., April 3, 7:30 PM – Regattabar, Cambridge, MA, $20, buy tickets here
Sat., April 5, 9:30 PM – Drom, New York, NY, $10/adv. $15, buy tickets here
Dün gece seyrim içinde / Last night I dreamt of…:
Turkish Songs of Protest
Five musicians of the Dünya Ensemble on vocals and a wide range of traditional instruments offer a lively and varied program: classical compositions of the palace, blunt women’s complaints from the countryside, songs which mingle the religious and the secular, songs which express longing and intimacy across ethnic and religious boundaries, “blasphemous” (and therefore politically incendiary) songs by heterodox Sufis, songs of unconventional love, Turkish songs notated and sung in Greek, and Jewish devotional texts set to Turkish Sufi melodies. This is public and private music, for entertainment, contemplation and devotion, expressing explicit border-crossings that defy official or societal norms: “protest music”, in the largest sense.
Locations, Dates/Times, Price:
Thursday, March 27, 8:00 PM – New England Conservatory, Jordan Hall, FREE
Sunday, March 30, 7:30 PM – Boston College, Gasson Hall, FREE
Tuesday, April 1, 8:00 PM – Tufts University, Distler Hall, FREE