Necdet Ya Ar

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Necdet Yaşar or Necdet Yasar in the West (born 1930), is a Turkish tanbur lute player and teacher. A founding member of the Istanbul State Turkish Music Ensemble, he performed throughout the world as a cultural ambassador for Turkey and taught twice at the University of Washington (USA). In 1991, the Turkish government awarded him the title of "National Artist". In 1930, Necdet Yaşar was born in Nizip, a small town near Gaziantep, Turkey. He graduated from the School of Economics, Istanbul University. In 1972-73 and 1980-81, Yaşar was a resident artist of the Program of Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington (USA), where he gave lectures on the makam system of Ottoman classical music.