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 ...

Kazakh musicians transform traditional sounds into modern masterpieces ... they're bringing it to the world stage and redefining what Kazakh music means today.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...