EZGI KOKER AND SAVAS OZKOK TRIO

Great Turkish solists evening

Part 2

Ezgi Köker : song
Savaş Özkök : kanun, song
Süveyda Çolakoğlu : oud
Suat Borazan : drums

Ezgi Köker is one of the most reputed singers in the younger generation. At ease in both classical and popular repertoires, she demonstrates grace and exceptional talents. She is frequently sought after, as much as in the media as in traditional music circles.

For this concert, she will be accompanied by Savaş Özkök, a singer and master on the kanun, the eastern cithara. Fine connoisseur of ancient compositions and an exceptional improviser, Savaş performs as a soloist and in ensembles such as the Swirling Dervishes of Konya or Burhan Öçal's Istanbul Oriental Ensemble. As for, the lute player Sűveyda Çolakoğlu, she adds the warm timbres of the oud to the ensemble, whose music will by given the rhythms of and the virtuoso percussionist Suat Borazan.