Dear Friends,

We hope this finds you well and your families in good health.

We have missed our musical studies and time together with the difficulties of the last year. It has been challenging as well for Timuçin and his work in Turkey, but we are happy to share the news that he is well and in spite of the continuing pandemic here and there, we are making plans to take up our studies again with a remote learning format.

Timuçin has been carrying on instruction with his local students over Zoom, and is proposing a format for us that will permit the benefit from meshk with our teacher and continue to build our skills and knowledge of the music we love. We are pleased to invite you to join us for a pilot session this coming Saturday, January 9 at 9AM (Hawaii) = 11 AM (Pacific) = 2 PM (Eastern) time. Please plan approximately two hours of time for this first class. Materials are being prepared and will be shared later this week.

We are still putting together the infrastructure to enable this to become an ongoing learning experience for Hoca’s students, and there are details to work out that we will plan to share as the format develops and the needs become clear. At this time no fee structure has been determined. We welcome students without regard for their ability to contribute financially, but there will be overhead costs in making this available and for those able to contribute we would welcome donations to offset costs and further the work of the Society for Turkish Classical Music. (We are a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization, donations are tax-deductible.)

If you would like to help continue this work, please consider donating!

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Please email Meg Emine or use the contact form via the website to let us know if you are interested and if you would be available at the time mentioned. We will follow up with information so you can register for the event. We are limiting the first session to those who have been Hoca’s active students or by invitation from a local STCM representative and may grow from there. We look forward to participating with those of you who can join us and will plan to keep you informed as things move forward.

Sending our best wishes for a new year, and one with more shared music,

Mahmud