Ak Pirim Ensemble
Alpar Group Ensemble from Tartaristan

Programme

Ak-Pirim Ensemble & Friends

Sufi Gathering Concert

Ethno Group Alpar

The Music of the Golden Horde

The Ak Pirim Ensemble consists of musicians from all over the world. The ensemble's music connects worlds and cultures and focuses on traditional Sufi and dance rituals. The ensemble also plays traditional music from the Middle East and Central Asia with influences from the shamanic tradition of this region. Another focus is on the healing aspect of this special music, which is based on a thousand-year-old tradition of oriental music therapy that has been practised in hospitals throughout the Orient since the 9th century.
The Ak-Pirim Ensemble also invites friends and traditional musicians to this extraordinary „Gathering“ to enrich the evening musically and take the audience on a journey to the artistic-spiritual blossoms of the Orient. This traditional art, which combines music, poetry and the spiritual dimension, is rooted in the great Sufi poets, such as Mevlana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Yunus Emre or Niyazi Misri, ... and in the universal beauty that is expressed through them.

The Alpar Group was founded in 2017 in Kazan and is a vocal-instrumental ensemble, which carries on the traditions of the medieval greatness of Tatar culture from the era of the Kazan Khanate and the Golden Horde revitalised. Their repertoire ranges from archaic pre-Islamic melodies to narrative „Baits“ (stories) about the Golden Horde. Based on ethnographic compositions of various genres from all regions where Tatars live, the audience is transported into an atmosphere of the nomadic era. The Alpar Group has his own workshop and makes traditional instruments himself: Dumbıra, Quray, Yatagan, Qıl Qobız, Däf, Taqta Qobız - based on the concept and drawings of traditional Tatar moulds.

Organised by Gerald Ilyas Klawatsch. Current information and tickets at tickettailor.com (Link).