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DERYA TURKAN Derya Türkan is a young master of classical Turkish kemenche. He plays improvisational as well as the Ottoman classical music repertoire. Türkan was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1973. He grew up in a musical family and his first music lessons were with the well known Turkish cellist... Learn More »

DERYA TURKAN Derya Türkan is a young master of classical Turkish kemenche. He plays improvisational as well as the Ottoman classical music repertoire. Türkan was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1973. He grew up in a musical family and his first music lessons were with the well known Turkish cellist Firat Kiziltug. Türkan attended and graduated from the Turkish Music Conservatory Instruments Education Department of the Istanbul Technical University, where he studied with Ihsan Özgen, an internationally recognized Turkish musician. In 1990, Türkan was invited to perform as a guest musician by the Turkish Cultural Ministry's Istanbul National Turkish Music Ensemble, directed by Necdet Yasar. In 1993 Türkan worked as a guest musician at Turkish Radio Television, Istanbul Radio division for one year, where he earned outstanding praise. He worked alongside such master musicians as Alâeddin Yavasça, Bekir Sidki Sezgin, Niyazi Sayin, and Erol Deran. During this time, he performed at many concerts both nationally and internationally with well known groups such as the Necdet Yasar Ensemble, and Ihsan Özgen`s Anatolia. Türkan has given many concerts in the United States, France, Germany, Finland, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Israel and many other countries in addition to his native Turkey. In 1996, Türkan performed with Turkish ney player Kudsi Ergüner at Yehudi Menuhin`s 80th birthday celebration concerts, organized by French President Jacques Chirac, as an invited musician. Türkan also has toured and recorded with Kudsi Ergüner's various ensembles. Some of these projects include Ottoman Drums, Ottamania, IslamBlues and La Banda Allaturka. Like his teacher Ihsan Özgen, Türkan aims to follow and develop the teachings of one of this century's genius musicians, Tanburi Cemil Bey, and today continues to work on different projects in his music career with this goal in mind. Ahenk and Letter from istanbul are consequent steps towards Türkan's goal. MURAT AYDEMIR Murat Aydemir was born in Hanover, Germany in 1971. Aydemir studied at the Istanbul Technical University National Turkish Music Conservatory, beginning in 1982. He graduated from the Instrument Education Department of the Conservatory as an exceptionally outstanding student, and was accepted to the Master's programme of the conservatory without further examination. He started to study his instrument, the tanbur, with the well known tanbur player and composer Necip Gülses, and completed his Master's Degree with that same teacher. In 1988, when he was only 16 years old, he was invited to perform with the Turkish Cultural Ministry's Istanbul National Turkish Music Ensemble, directed by tanbur master Necdet Yasar. He performed with this group for one year, during which time he had the opportunity to work with some very well known Turkish Musicians. From 1989 to the present, he has been performing as a tanbur player with the Istanbul National Classical Turkish Music Ensemble and has performed many concerts with different groups both nationally and internationally. As an outstanding guest musician, he worked in Turkish Radio Television, Istanbul Radio Division as a tanbur player. He also had the opportunity to work with many masters of Classical Turkish Music, the likes of Alâeddin Yavasça, Bekir Sidki Sezgin, Erol Deran, Ihsan Özgen and Necdet Yasar. Together with Derya Türkan, Aydemir has worked for the last seven years on numerous different projects in addition to his work with Turkish Radio Television. This album represents the first result of this period of hard work and dedication.
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