Makam Trio was born out of the musical encounter between Mevlüt Akgüngör
(ney/reedflute) and Robert Micin (oud). Together they play pieces from
the vast repertoire of Ottoman music and the mystical Sufi music such as
taksims, peshrevs, ilahi’s and sazsemai’s in various makams. On this
concert they will perform with a special guest, the Ghent based
percussionist Hilde De Clercq and create an immersive musical
experience.

Mevlüt Akgüngör has been passionate about music since childhood. At a
young age, he received his first musical instruction from his father in
traditional and religious singing. He started his musical career with
the saz (Turkish long neck lute), but soon his interest switched over to
the Ney, a Turkish reed flute that is seen as a central instrument in
both classical Turkish music and the more religious Sufi music. He
followed various workshops and master classes with masters such as Ömer
Erdoğdular, Derya Türkan, Christos Barbas and Ross Daly. The great ney
masters Niyazi Sayın, Sadreddin Özçimi and Ömer Erdoğdular are his main
musical inspirations along with other greats of classical Turkish music
such as Tanburi Cemil Bey, Necdet Yaşar, Ihsan Özgen, Bekir Sıdkı Sezgin
and Kani Karaca.

Robert Micin has been playing ud for nearly 15 years.  After a first
music career in the world of rock and electric guitar because of his
interest in other musical experiences he bought an oud during a trip to
Istanbul, and started taking lessons at the Arab Cultural Centre in
Liège with several great musicians from the Arab world: Raed Khoshaba
(Iraq), Anwar Abou Dragh (Iraq), Azzouz El Houri (Morocco) and Elias
Bachoura (Syria). In addition to these weekly lessons, he participated
in workshops and master classes in Belgium and abroad (Greece, Germany,
France) with, among others. Adel Salameh (Palestine), Tarek Abdallah
(Egypt), Nassir Shamma (Iraq), among others.

Hilde De Clercq studied both western music and eastern percussion and
singing, and has a passion for Turkish music. As a percussionist, singer
and movement artist, she was and is active in several ensembles. In
2016, she released the CD 'Sudan Sebepler' in Turkey, with the record
label Kalan, featuring interpretations of Turkish traditional music and
her own compositions. She creates children's performances with Osama
Abdulrasol, including Dag Djinn, for "Jeugd en Muziek", and Tulp
Vertelt. The new performance "Bablief?" recently premiered at HaConcerts
in Ghent. She has been programming Turkish music for the digital music
provider Stingray since 2001.
She has been teaching darboeka and bendir at Centrale since 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKUkGIQ3ouw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGKvvLr82aA
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