To round off the festival, we invite you to a concert by Deniz Mahir Kartal.
📅 4 October (Sunday)
🕖 7.00 pm – 8.00 pm
📍 Cafeteria, Level +1
Originally from Istanbul and now living in Berlin, this multi-instrumentalist and composer blends the musical traditions he brought with him from Anatolia with the language of the contemporary European music scene. In his work, he combines traditional songs and melodies with improvisation, jazz and electronic music. During his solo performances, he builds up the different layers of the music himself: he sings, creates electronic beats and loops, and plays instruments such as the kaval and the duduk, the stringed çağlama, and the clarinet. The traditional instruments he uses are not museum pieces, but living repositories of memory, which the artist incorporates into a modern, trance-like language that defies genre classifications.
This is a concert to listen to attentively, to experience intensely, and also to dance to.
To round off the Przemiany Festival
After three days of discussions on artificial intelligence, we bring Przemiany to a close, turning our attention to what is profoundly human: memory, emotions, improvisation and the experience of being together.
Deniz Mahir Kartal
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer of Anatolian music
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Deniz Mahir Kartal is a versatile multi-instrumentalist who plays traditional instruments such as the duduk and kaval, as well as the saxophone, clarinet, çağlama and guitar, with great skill. A deep passion for Anatolian music, which began when he was five years old, led him to undertake formal studies in Turkish folk dance and music at the Conservatoire of Istanbul Technical University.
Deniz is involved in a wide range of musical projects, from traditional and classical genres to jazz, contemporary and electronic music. He performs with orchestras, in opera productions, with ensembles and in intercultural projects throughout Europe.
Aside from performing live, Deniz composes film scores, arranges pieces and teaches the duduk at the University of Hildesheim. His solo project, KafaNar, blends the rich traditions of Anatolian music with electronic beats, loops and vocals, creating a mesmerising, danceable sound that leaves a lasting impression on listeners.
