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List Of Turkish Composers
This is a chronological list of WP:Notability, notable composers of the Turkey, Republic of Turkey. *Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi (1778–1846) *Abdülaziz (1830–1876) *Murad V (1840–1904) *Leyla Saz (1850–1936) *Fehime Sultan (1875–1929) *The Turkish Five *Cemal Reşit Rey (1904–1985), symphonic music, operas, chamber music, operettas and musicals *Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906–1972), symphonic music, choral music, solo piano, chamber music *Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907–1991), symphonic music, oratorio, choral music, chamber music, opera, ballet music *Bülent Arel (1919–1990) *İlhan Usmanbaş (1921–2025) *Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat (1923–2014) *Nevit Kodallı (1925–2009) symphonic music *İlhan Mimaroğlu (1926–2012) *Ferit Tüzün (1929-1977) *Pınar Köksal (1946–2019) *Aydın Esen (born 1962) *Gülçin Yahya Kaçar (born 1966) *Özkan Manav (born 1967) *Emre Aracı (born 1968) *Fazıl Say (born 1970) *Füsun Köksal (born 1973) *Evrim Demirel (born 1977) *Oğuz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferit Tüzün
Ferit Tüzün (24 April 1929, Istanbul – 21 October 1977, Ankara) was a Turkish composer. His works included the opera ''Midas'ın Kulakları'' ('' King Midas' Ears''), on the tale of King Midas Midas (; ) was a king of Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house. His father was Gordias, and his mother was Cybele. The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek m ...' ears.Evin İlyasoğlu, ''71 Turkish composers'', 2007, p, 122, "Ferit Tüzün, İstanbul, April 24, 1929, Ankara, October 21, 1977. His father Mustafa Rasim was an elementary school ..." References {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuzun, Ferit Turkish composers 1929 births 1977 deaths Musicians from Istanbul Burials at Karşıyaka Cemetery, Ankara 20th-century Turkish composers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Composers By Nationality
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Erhan Tanman
Mehmet Erhan Tanman (born 29 March 1989) is a contemporary Turkish composer. One of the late-generation contemporary Turkish composers, he was honoured with the ''Deutsche Welle Composition Prize'' in 2012 and the Donizetti Classical Music Awards Young Musician of The Year award in 2013. Biography Tanman was born in Istanbul on 29 March 1989. He began his musical training with piano lessons, which he studied with his father and as a chorist in TRT Child Chorus. He then completed his part-time education in piano at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory, while he was at primary school. In later years, he studied composition and orchestration with Prof. Dr. Hasan Uçarsu, Prof. Dr. Özkan Manav and Doç. Mehmet Nemutlu, harmony and fugue with Volkan Barut, counterpoint with Babür Tongur, and piano with Prof. Selen Bucak at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory, where he has received his bachelors degrees in composition and piano. His works have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeynep GedizlioÄŸlu
Zeynep Gedizlioğlu (born 4 December 1977) is a Turkish composer who won the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize Award in 2012. Biography Zeynep Gedizlioğlu was born 4 December 1977 in İzmir and grew up in Istanbul. She has spent most of her life in Istanbul and Berlin. Her mother is the actress Şahika Tekand and her father, Levent Gedizlioğlu, is an architect. Gedizlioğlu attended the Istanbul Conservatory. She went on to study in Saarbrücken, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe. Over the years she has learned composition from such people as Cengiz Tanç, İlhan Usmanbaş, Theo Brandmüller and Wolfgang Rihm. Gedizlioğlu has had her music appear and be performed by philharmonic orchestra all over Europe. She has a number of CDs released with her music. Gedizlioğlu has worked for IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oğuzhan Balcı
Oğuzhan Balcı (born 3 November 1977) is a Turkish composer and conductor and a professor at Istanbul Technical University. Biography He was born in Istanbul. He started taking music lessons in 6 years old from Cenan Akın at TRT Istanbul Child Choir and then continued as a chorist at Istanbul State Opera and Ballet Youth Choir. In 1988, he enrolled in Istanbul Technical University Turkish Music State Conservatory at the violin department and he became pupil of Ayhan Turan. In 1994, he enrolled in composition department of the same university. He studied Turkish maqam music with Yavuz Özüstün, harmony and counterpoint with Nail Yavuzoğlu, Turkish music structure with Mutlu Torun, conducting and piano with Demirhan Altuğ. After the university education, he started to study a master programme in MIAM and during a year studied composition and music theory with Kamran Ince, David Osbon and Pieter Snapper. Then, he graduated from master programme in Haliç University Turkish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evrim Demirel
Evrim Demirel (born November 17, 1977) is a Turkish composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ... and jazz pianist. Evrim Demirel was educated in Izmir High School of Fine Arts and he studied piano with Nergis Sakirzade. Then he enrolled at Bilkent University in Ankara becoming a student in the Theory-Composition Department of the Music and Performing Arts Faculty. He earned his B.A. from this institution studying composition with Elhan Bakihanov, and went to the Netherlands for further music studies in Rotterdam Conservatory. He studied jazz piano under Rob van Kreeveld, electronic music under Rene Uijlenhoet and composition under Klaas de Vries and graduated from the composition and jazz- piano departments in 2005. Afterwards he has studied composition with Theo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Füsun Köksal
Füsun Köksal (born 1973) is a Turkish composer of contemporary classical music. Köksal was born and grew up in Bursa, Turkey and attended Bilkent University's Faculty of Music and Performing Arts in Ankara from 1989 to 1996, where she earned her bachelor's degree in music theory and composition, studying under the supervision of Bujor Hoinic. From 1996 to 2002 she lived in Cologne, Germany, where she studied composition with Krzysztof Meyer and theory with Johannes Schild, earning a Diplom Musikerin from the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 2002 she returned to Bilkent University, where she taught composition for three years. In 2004, she matriculated into the doctoral program at the University of Chicago, where she has studied with Marta Ptaszynska and Shulamit Ran. For the 2010–11 academic year she was Visiting Professor of Theory and Composition at the University of Pittsburgh. Her compositions have been performed worldwide by notable ensembles including the Ensemble Modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazıl Say
Fazıl Say (; born 14 January 1970) is a Turkish pianist and composer who has worked internationally. Life and career Say was born in Ankara in 1970. His father, Ahmet Say, was an author and musicologist. His mother, Gürgün Say, was a pharmacist. His grandfather Fazıl Say, whose name he shares, was a member of the Spartakusbund. Say was a child prodigy, who was able to do basic arithmetic with 4-digit numbers at the age of two. His father, having found out that he was playing the melody of "Daha Dün Annemizin" (Turkish version of Ah! vous dirai-je, maman) on a makeshift flute with no prior training, enlisted the help of Ali Kemal Kaya, an oboist and family friend. At the age of three, Say started his piano lessons under the tutelage of pianist Mithat Fenmen. Say wrote his first piece, a piano sonata, in 1984, at the age of fourteen, when he was a student at the Ankara State Conservatory. It was followed, in this early phase of his development, by several chamber works wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emre Aracı
Emre Aracı (born 22 December 1968) is a Turkish music historian, conductor, and composer. Early life and education. Aracı was born in Ankara, Turkey and moved to the United Kingdom in 1987. He studied music at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Music with honours followed by a PhD in 1999. The subject of his thesis was the life and works of Ahmet Adnan Saygun. During his years in Edinburgh, Aracı founded the Edinburgh University String Orchestra. In 2000, the orchestra established the Emre Aracı Composition Prize, which is annually awarded to student composers. With funding from the Türk Ekonomi Bankası, between 1999 and 2002 Aracı was a research associate at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, University of Cambridge, studying European music in the Ottoman Empire. In 1999, he founded a string orchestra called the London Academy of Ottoman Court Music which performed his orchestrations of compositions by Italian musicians res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Özkan Manav
Ali Özkan Manav (born May 20, 1967) is a Turkish composer of contemporary classical music. His earlier works were influenced by Saygun, Usmanbaş, and Ligeti. Some of his orchestral works feature aleatoric passages. Later works combine newer timbral concerns with maqamic pitch content, microtones together with elements of folk music. These include traditional ornamentations, vocal, and instrumental components. Biography Manav was born in Mersin, Turkey. His family moved to Istanbul in 1971. His mother introduced him to music, and he started private piano lessons with Hülya Saydam in 1980. His first compositions appeared the following year. Then, he entered the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory's composition department in 1984, and became a student of Erçivan Saydam, Adnan Saygun, and Afşar Timuçin. After his graduation in 1991, he was appointed as an instructor in the same institution. He earned his master's degree in 1994, while he was also a student of com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gülçin Yahya Kaçar
Gulçin Yahya Kaçar (10 January 1966) is a Turkish musician, Oud master, composer, singer, and academic. Member of the Republic of Turkey Presidential Culture and Art Policies Board. Biography Gülçin Yahya Kaçar was born in Ankara in 1966 as the daughter of Dalyan Yahya, member of foreign affairs officer and housewife Arife Yahya. Her great-grandfather was from Kastoria, district of Bitola in the past. The nickname of Yahya family in Manastır is Karaman. The family of Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi, famous composer of Turkish Music, moved from Kastoria to Istanbul as well. Yahya family came to Turkey due to population exchange in 1923 and settled first in İzmir- Urla, then Mersin, after that Çukur town connected to Kayseri- Felahiye (now called Özvatan). Parents of Gülçin Yahya Kaçar were born in Kayseri-Çukur. Gülçin Yahya Kaçar became interested in music by taking private lessons on her talent recognized by her family in childhood. After graduating from Çan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
