An evening of Islamic devotional music with Mesut Kurtis, the flagship concert of The Cambridge Festival of Islamic Arts.
Mesut Kurtis plays the Cambridge Corn Exchange on Saturday 28 November, the flagship concert of The Cambridge Festival of Islamic Arts. It's an evening of Islamic devotional music, with the festival supported by Yunus Emre Enstitüsü – London.
Kurtis is an internationally acclaimed artist known for his interpretation of Islamic devotional music, and his work sits at the meeting point of traditional forms and a contemporary musical sensibility. His repertoire draws on a tradition that resonates across Türkiye, the Balkans and the wider Muslim world, moving between familiar devotional songs, ilahis and other vocal traditions rooted in different Muslim musical cultures. The programme centres on works of love, praise and devotion, combining timeless poetry with both traditional and contemporary musical arrangements.
That reach across different cultures is a good way to get a handle on what he does: the songs he works with come from a shared spiritual and poetic heritage that connects Türkiye, the Balkans and the wider Muslim world, and the set moves between the devotional songs, ilahis and other vocal traditions that grow out of those different musical cultures. The whole evening is built around love, praise and devotion, pairing old poetry with arrangements that look back to tradition and forward to something more contemporary.
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It starts at 19:30 at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 2 Wheeler Street, CB2 3QB. Tickets are £15 to £21, including the booking fee, and latecomers may not be admitted.
