Small World Big Ears: Zornitsa & Music of Turkish Women Composers

Zornitsa (Morning Star), founded in 1992, is a Bulgarian chorus and orchestra of men from the Boston area, directed by the acclaimed Bulgaria singer Tatiana Sarbinska. Zornitsa performs traditional and urban Bulgarian songs, accompanied by the traditional Bulgarian instruments gaida (bagpipe), kaval (end-blown flute), gadulka (a bowed stringed instrument with sympathetic strings), tambura (a long-necked fretted stringed instrument), tarabuka (small drum), and tapan (large drum). Zornitsa has performed for many events in the Boston area and has traveled four times to Bulgaria, performing at the Koprivshtitsa Folk Festival, at the State Opera House in Blagoevgrad, and on Bulgarian National Television.

The 500 year old Ottoman music tradition owes a lot to the contribution of women composers, performers and teachers of Turkish music and with their project Music of Turkish-Ottoman Women Composers, these musicians aim to shed light to the composers works of art, and present this unique genre of music with its traditional instruments. Oldest documentations and illustrations which have survived from the Ottoman period until now of women performing music are from the 16th century. Stu

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