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The Mavera Ensemble

The Mavera Ensemble from Ankara, Turkey brings Ottoman-Turkish sufi music and the whirling rite of dervishes to the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center. Mavera was established by Bülent Uyaroglu and his friends in 1994 in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, with the goal of playing Ottoman-Turkish music in its authenticity. Meaning “beyond” in the Ottoman Turkish language, Mavera has brought many masterpieces of religious and classical Ottoman-Turkish music to daylight and performed them for the first time in almost a century. Bringing together experienced instrumentalists and vocalists with classical training in music, Mavera has appeared in concerts in several American and Turkish universities in the past few years, where it performed religious and non-religious Ottoman-Turkish music, often accompanied by the whirling rite of semazens, the “whirling dervishes.”   The Musicians Kanun (Turkish zither with 75 strings): Bülent Uyaroglu.

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Watch Past Performances

The Mavera Ensemble 12/13/06: The Mavera Ensemble

This ensemble performs Ottoman-Turkish songs, sufi music, and Mevlevi Ayins, including the art of the Whirling Dervish, which combines rhythmic rotation, the chanting of poetry, and music to achieve a state of trance.

The Mavera Ensemble

This ensemble performs Ottoman-Turkish songs, sufi music, and Mevlevi Ayins, including the art of the Whirling Dervish, which combines rhythmic rotation, the chanting of poetry, and music to achieve a state of trance.

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