A Platform for Ethnically and Culturally Inspired Music
ABOUT
Turan Ensemble (also named Тұран, or Turan Ethno Folk Band) is a Kazakh folk music band that was created in 2008 by several students of the Kazakh National Conservatory named after Kurmangazy. The Turan ensemble is composed of five members: Zhantu Dadabayev, who is the group's throat singer, Maksat Medeubek, Bauirzhan Bekmukhanbetov, Serik Nurmoldaev, and Erzhigit Aliyev.
The band usually plays popular folk instruments such as the dombra, zhetigen, kobyz, sybyzgy, sherter, shankobyz, dangyra, sazsyrnay, bugyshak, and some others. In their performances, the Turan ensemble often wears traditional Kazakh costumes to invoke links to an ancient Turkic past. As artists-in-residence at the Museum of Kazakh Folk Musical Instruments, the Turan ensemble seeks new ways to remodel folk music by using these traditional Kazakh musical instruments.
The band usually plays popular folk instruments such as the dombra, zhetigen, kobyz, sybyzgy, sherter, shankobyz, dangyra, sazsyrnay, bugyshak, and some others. In their performances, the Turan ensemble often wears traditional Kazakh costumes to invoke links to an ancient Turkic past. As artists-in-residence at the Museum of Kazakh Folk Musical Instruments, the Turan ensemble seeks new ways to remodel folk music by using these traditional Kazakh musical instruments.
