Kaila Flexer is a violinist, composer and music educator. She is co-founder of Teslim, a quartet of Bay Area musicians dedicated to playing contemporary modal music inspired by Turkish classical and folk musics as well as traditional music from the Balkans. For a full bio, click here >>
7 Decades is a recording project from the band Teslim of Kaila Flexer’s original compositions honoring her parents, Abe & Bobbie Flexer, who met 
when they were both 11 years old and are now 84. They have been happily in love for over 7 Decades. Click here to learn more, and here to purchase the album!
(tes-LEEM) is a Turkish word that means both “commit”
and “surrender.” It is also a musical term for a recurring theme in Turkish music. For us the recurring theme is that the trust we have in one another musically has allowed us to both commit and surrender to our own individual voices, hopefully creating something larger than the four of us.
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