Makam Workshop with Tev Stevig

Saturday April 12, noon-5pm

Montague Center, MA (exact location given with registration)

Suggested donation $30-60, no one turned away

Boston-based musician Tev Stevig offers an intensive workshop, focusing on exploring the modal, improvisational system of Turkish makam. This system not only forms the basis of Turkish classical and folk music, but is also foundational in Balkan, Middle Eastern, Greek, and other Mediterranean music.

The workshop is geared towards experienced vocalists and instrumentalists, with some prior knowledge of makam useful. We will focus on the theory, practice, and repertoire of several makams.

Tev Stevig (www.tevstevig.com) is a Boston-based musician and educator whose work with contemporary modal music, traditional styles from the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan, North India and other Eastern modal traditions prompted the New York Music Daily to call him "one of the world's most brilliantly individualistic guitarists." He composes and performs on a variety of plucked string instruments from around the world, appearing in venues across North America and Europe. Tev's solo release, Jeni Jol: Music of the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey garnered universal praise from critics, with the Boston Globe commenting, "he initiates something new by connecting and combining seemingly disparate cultures," and was one of Acoustic Guitar Magazine's best albums of 2013.

Tev is the artistic director of Labyrinth New England and an active member of the Labyrinth Ensemble in Toronto, Çeşni Duo/Trio, Orchestrotica, Czarna Wolgastar, Klezwoods, and the Late Risers. He has studied contemporary modal music with Ross Daly, Harris Lambrakis, Evgenios Voulgaris, Murat Aydemir, Yasamin Shahhosseini, Cihan Turkoğlu, Giorgios Xylouris, Christos Zotos, George Ruckert, and Efrén Lopez.

This program is funded in part by a grant from the Montague Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.