Gari Hegedus began his life in music with the study of Celtic and Bretagne music, but was led eastward with Turkish classical and Mevlevi ceremonial music. Gary is a highly-accomplished and versatile recording and performing artist. His repertoire and playing styles reach outward from Turkey and Greece into the Arab lands, Iran and India. Gari had devoted a decade of his life to the violin before learning that his ancestral Hungarian name, Hegedus, meant "violinist."