Duruöz to Perform Turkish Music Oct. 28

Cem Duruöz, private lessons teacher on guitar, will perform at the Weill Recital Hall in New York at 8 p.m. Oct. 28 in a concert sponsored by D’Addario Foundation and Alhambra Guitars.

The program will include Turkish music, Brazilian Bossa Nova and Tangos from Argentina. The program will include solos and duos with guitarist Philippe Bertaud.

A frequent soloist, Duruöz has appeared with more than 10 orchestras regularly performing Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez among others, under the batons of such conductors as Wesleyan’s Angel Gil-Ordóñez. In January 2008 he gave the world premiere performance of Concierto Anatolia, a guitar concerto featuring Turkish melodies and rhythms written for him by American composer David Hahn.

Mr. Duruöz has performed in four continents in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Japan, France, Greece, Bosnia, Spain, the UK, Serbia, Kosovo, Poland, Mexico, throughout Turkey and the USA.