The younger generation wholeheartedly embraced these fresh musical forms, while some segments of society, particularly older generations, viewed them with skepticism, perceiving the music as a ...

Orteke is a Kazakh performing art with a traditional two-stringed instrument called a dombyra and a wooden mountain goat puppet. Attached to the surface of a drum, the puppet is connected to the ...

Tlendiyev died on Oct. 15, 1998. He was named a People’s Artist of the USSR and awarded Kazakhstan’s highest honor, Halyk ...

Aleksei Levshin, who conducted the Russian Empire’s first ethnographic study of Kazakhs in 1832, wrote that he could not “decide what the Kazakhs are.” He did not know what to make of informants who ...

ASTANA — The Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Information hosted the annual Nauryz Ball on March 28 in Astana, uniting foreign ...

Euronews Culture: You were classically trained and offered a position at the Astana Opera, yet you chose to pursue a ...

Dailymotion Meet the Kazakh musicians who are turning traditional sounds into modern masterpieces Posted: 5 March 2025 | Last updated: 5 March 2025 In this episode of Modern Nomads, we meet Kazakh ...

People in Kazakhstan are enjoying a five-day holiday to celebrate Nauryz, the traditional New Year, from March 21 to 25. In Kazakh, "Nauryz" means "bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new." ...