ACF17 İlhan Mimaroğlu Memorial Night: Ayşegül Kuş Durakoğlu & Kerem Görsev
june 14th saturday 2014 at: 20:30 Bilkent Concert Hall
location
Bilkent Concert Hall
Address:
Bilkent University
Faculty of Music and Performing Arts
Bilkent / ANKARA
+90 (312) 290 17 75
Bilkent University
Faculty of Music and Performing Arts
Bilkent / ANKARA
+90 (312) 290 17 75
İlhan Mimaroğlu Memorial Night: Ayşegül Kuş Durakoğlu & Kerem Görsev
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Ayşegül Kuş Durakoğlu piyano/ piano
Kerem Görsev piyano/ piano
We are commemorating İlhan Mimaroğlu, a highly prized musician, composer, author, and music critic that we have lost in 2012, with a special concert in this festival. We are going to pay our regards to Mimaroğlu, who also has a reputable place in music history as a pioneer of electronic and atonal music, with Ayşegül Kuş Durakoğlu and Kerem Görsev. We appreciate the support of Nurol Holding.
When İlhan Mimaroğlu, born in 1926, passed away in 17 July 2012 in New York, he left behind pioneering compositions and experimental works of electronic music, the books that he has written, and countless albums that he has produced especially at Atlantic Records.
Mimaroğlu, founding a radio station with the records he bought with his pocket money while studying at Galatasaray High School, became one of the first people who introduced jazz music to Turkey. After graduating from Ankara University Faculty of Law, he started to play this unique music to a wider audience in his radio show Caz Saati (Jazz Hour) in Ankara and Istanbul state radios.
In 1958, he published Caz Sanatı, the first book written on jazz in Turkey. 'It can be stated that instead of choosing a more modest title, shouting out that jazz is an art in the title of the book, means acknowledging the doubts about the art-ness of jazz. It is not a lie. I have no doubt that jazz is art. Nevertheless, many people have. The essential aim of this book is to prove that jazz is an art.' The book, as Mimaroğlu introduced with these words, is published again by Pan Yayınları in 2013, 55 years after its first publication reveals that it has not lost its timeliness even today.
As Ankara Jazz Society, we are commemorating İlhan Mimaroğlu within the scope of this festival with two valuable pianists.
Ayşegül Kuş Durakoğlu, received her Bachelor of Music degree at the Istanbul State Conservatory, her Master of Music Degree from the Juilliard School and a Ph.D. degree with notable distinction at the New York University, and won the NYU's Chamber Music Special Award. She is also a faculty member at the Stevens Institute of Technology teaching music history and piano classes. She devotes most of her performances to Turkish composers' music and she considers herself privileged to work closely with Mimaroğlu and has premiered his piano compositions in the United States and worldwide.
Kerem Görsev is one of the best musicians that represents Turkish Jazz outstandingly. Görsev, born in 1961, has been working with distinguished musicians from Turkey and the world since he was a student at Istanbul State Conservatory. He has released 13 albums, his album Therapy (2010) was nominated to Grammy.
Kerem Görsev piyano/ piano
We are commemorating İlhan Mimaroğlu, a highly prized musician, composer, author, and music critic that we have lost in 2012, with a special concert in this festival. We are going to pay our regards to Mimaroğlu, who also has a reputable place in music history as a pioneer of electronic and atonal music, with Ayşegül Kuş Durakoğlu and Kerem Görsev. We appreciate the support of Nurol Holding.
When İlhan Mimaroğlu, born in 1926, passed away in 17 July 2012 in New York, he left behind pioneering compositions and experimental works of electronic music, the books that he has written, and countless albums that he has produced especially at Atlantic Records.
Mimaroğlu, founding a radio station with the records he bought with his pocket money while studying at Galatasaray High School, became one of the first people who introduced jazz music to Turkey. After graduating from Ankara University Faculty of Law, he started to play this unique music to a wider audience in his radio show Caz Saati (Jazz Hour) in Ankara and Istanbul state radios.
In 1958, he published Caz Sanatı, the first book written on jazz in Turkey. 'It can be stated that instead of choosing a more modest title, shouting out that jazz is an art in the title of the book, means acknowledging the doubts about the art-ness of jazz. It is not a lie. I have no doubt that jazz is art. Nevertheless, many people have. The essential aim of this book is to prove that jazz is an art.' The book, as Mimaroğlu introduced with these words, is published again by Pan Yayınları in 2013, 55 years after its first publication reveals that it has not lost its timeliness even today.
As Ankara Jazz Society, we are commemorating İlhan Mimaroğlu within the scope of this festival with two valuable pianists.
Ayşegül Kuş Durakoğlu, received her Bachelor of Music degree at the Istanbul State Conservatory, her Master of Music Degree from the Juilliard School and a Ph.D. degree with notable distinction at the New York University, and won the NYU's Chamber Music Special Award. She is also a faculty member at the Stevens Institute of Technology teaching music history and piano classes. She devotes most of her performances to Turkish composers' music and she considers herself privileged to work closely with Mimaroğlu and has premiered his piano compositions in the United States and worldwide.
Kerem Görsev is one of the best musicians that represents Turkish Jazz outstandingly. Görsev, born in 1961, has been working with distinguished musicians from Turkey and the world since he was a student at Istanbul State Conservatory. He has released 13 albums, his album Therapy (2010) was nominated to Grammy.
