II. International Turkish Classical Music Workshop

The music camps, which can also be named "Music Workshop", means the seminar performed out of the university, and applied works of the persons within the same profession together. These camps are hold throughout the world and primarily based on Classical Turkish Music.

The Classical Turkish Music Camps organized in foreign countries is much sought after and is realized with the participation of valuable Turkish music master, who are known worldwide, and interestingly, this camps could not be performed in our homeland.

Basing on the interest shown to Turkish music and Turkish music instruments in the music camps organized in foreign countries, we took the first steps last year with the purpose of creating the music camp concept in our country and we realized it with success together with the participators coming from all over the world under the name of "I. Klasik Türk Muzik Kampi Istanbul 2007" (1st Classical Turkish Music Camp, Istanbul 2007). This year, we completed our "2nd Classical Turkish Music Camp, Edremit 2008" with the great increase in the number of participators and under the sponsorship of Ulus Muzik and Edremit Municipality; and besides, we presented our public Classical Turkish Music Concert that we specially coordinated after the camp and this different concept attracted much interest.

Classical Turkish Music Camps initiated under the leadership of Funda Dundar attracted great interest in our country.

Funda Dundar has lived in a foreign country for 16 years and adopted the principle of introducing Turkish music by means of Classical Turkish Music Camps, Classical Turkish Music Concerts, organizations and especially by the concerts made together with the famous singers/artists in America.

Starting his foreign country life as obtaining a Business Administration in London, she continued her foreign country experience through studying Russian Language and Literature in Russia and then she settled in Los Angeles, California and lived in America for eleven years.

Her organization activities she initiated under the roof of Los Angeles Turkish-American Association, the founder and president of which is she herself, and with the Chairmanship of South California Turkish-American Association Board and Chairmanship of Social Organizations were reinforced in other countries such as Greece, Austria, Tunisia, Algeria and other countries and later on she combined her business life with Ulus Group through settling in Turkey for the purpose of realizing such sort of Turkish Music organizations within our country as well, which attracted great interest in those countries.

The Music Camps, which are quite important for introducing both our culture and music to the whole world, will be applied in two parts as summer and winter camps under the roof of Ulus Group from now on. Upon the great interest on this issue, out winter camps of this year will be realized in foreign countries as well and will be initiated in Kuwait, Bahrain and Greece. Our goal is to realize music camps in different cities in our country and make our local culture prominent in foreign countries.

Our masters constituting the main roof in our Classical Turkish Music Camps are worldwide known virtuosos such as Zither Kanun Göksel Baktagir, Lude Yurdal Tokcan, Violin Keman Baki Kemancı, Reed Flute Ömer, Clarinet Tanju Erol, Percussion Cevat Akbulut, Classical Turkish Music San Ahmet Erdoğdular, Drum Bora Uymaz, Baglama Ali Osman Erbaşı, Greece Mode and Theory Christos Tsiamolis.

As in the previous year, the participants this year have been mostly from Turkey, Greece, Holland, Belgium, German, France, Kuwait, Dubai, Tunisia, Algeria and America.

As Ulus Group, our mission is to be able to introduce the richness, colorfulness and variety of Turkish culture to the world culture and to enable the whole world to take advantage of this cultural accumulation. By means of the Classical Turkish Music Camps, we took this goal of us one step further. We are happy and proud of coordinating such an organization initiated with the purpose of introducing Turkey and Turkish culture to the foreign countries.

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