Month: December 2023

Konur үn: On December 27, a working meeting was held at the Aiginė CRC office as part of the new project “Bringing konur үn to the sound of the Kyrgyz orchestra”. The initiative group of the project, musicians Cholpon Turumbaeva, Rysbek Junushov and the master of traditional musical instruments Marat Berikbaev discussed further practical tasks and planned activities of the project. Rysbek Zhunushov, the project master on comuz making, finalized the process of comuz making. Based on the general analysis, the master Marat Berikbaev will make changes in the structure…

The process of creating musical instruments under the “konur ún” project: Rysbek Zhunushov and Marat Berikbaev, masters and experts of the “Bringing konur ún to the sound of the Kyrgyz orchestra” project, are in the process of making komuzes and kyl kyyaks that can convey the original Kyrgyz sound of “konur”. Six 4-string kyl kyyaks have already been completed. The project will produce 12 musical instruments: 6 komuzes and 6 kyl kyyaks. The next stage of the project is to train musicians to play these instruments. Program Asyl Zhan: this…