Burak Bedikyan is a
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...
pianist and composer.
Life and career
Bedikyan is "a Turk of Armenian ancestry".
[Margasak, Peter (February 2014) "Burak Bedikyan – Circle of Life". ''Down Beat''. p. 90.] Early in his life, he was interested in
contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st-century classical music, 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 Modernism (music), post-tonal music after the death of ...
.
From 1996, he studied with pianist
Aydin Esen.
He has released four albums on
SteepleChase Records
SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time. He began recording concerts at Jazzhus Montmartre, w ...
. The first, ''Circle of Life'', was a quartet recording with
Chris Potter (sax),
Peter Washington
Peter Washington (born on August 28, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is a jazz double bassist. He played with the Westchester Community Symphony at the age of 14. Later he played electric bass in rock bands. He attended the University of Calif ...
(bass) and
Bill Stewart (drums) that featured some of his own compositions as well as covers.
[Fordham, John (15 August 2013]
"Burak Bedikyan: Circle of Life – Review"
''The Guardian''.
Discography
An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release.
As leader/co-leader
As sideman
References
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Living people
SteepleChase Records artists
Turkish jazz pianists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century pianists