Teachers who appreciate music may want to point students to the website and sounds of composer Kamran Ince. He offers a rich contrast to popular sounds heard by many youth.
Ince offers musical tones that blend classical western progressions of western instruments with the same from Turkish tradition.
Born in Montana in 1960 to American and Turkish parents, he holds a doctorate from Eastman School of Music and is Professor of Composition at the University of Memphis and co-director of MIAM (Center for Advanced Research in Music) at the Istanbul Technical University.
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