Turkey Now! Festival 2012

Adventurous vocal duo explore the boundaries of jazz, classic, folk and avant-garde

Serkan Çagrı is a young, extremely talented and by now world famous clarinet player. Yıldız Ibrahimova is a Bulgarian singer with Turkish roots. Like Greetje Bijma, she is primarily a vocal artist with an impressive vocal range of four octaves. In the Balkan Jazz project they delve into traditional music from the Balkans to Anatolia. They have a repertoire that varies from romantic gypsy numbers to East European folk songs. They mix authentic ethnic rhythyms with contemporary jazz, classical music and avant-garde, with room for sensitive passages as well as lively improvisations. In addition Çagrı also demonstrates his talents on the chalumeau, a baroque precursor to the clarinet. In Germany and Belgium they received rave reviews and standing ovations.