İlhan Mimaroğlu was born in Istanbul in 1926. He is the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey. After finishing at Galatasaray High School in 1945, he graduated from the Law School at Ankara University in 1949. He learned clarinet from Hayrullah Duygu. Mimaroğlu started preparing radio programs and wrote music critiques. In 1955, he went to New York to pursue his study with a Rockefeller Scholarship. He studied musicology with Paul Henry Lang and composition with Douglas Moore at Columbia University. In 1959, he settled in New York and started working at the Record Hunter Plaque Company. He also worked as an art critic on the radio program “Voice of America”. In the 1960s, he published and edited his book “Müzik Tarihi” in Turkey. Mimaroğlu completed his master’s degree in Electronic Music under Vladimir Ussachesvsky at Columbia University. He studied composition with Edgar Varese and Staphan Wolpe. Later, Mimaroğlu taught electronic music at Columbia University. He was invited to the Music Research Center Studio by French Radio in 1968.
He was the producer for Charles Mingus’ “Changes One and Changes Two”, as well as Federico Fellini’s “Satyricon”. Mimaroğlu was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1971. He worked as a producer for Atlantic Records, and collaborated with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on a moving anti-war statement, “Sing Me a Song of Songmy”. Mimaroğlu has published some books including “Günsüz Günce” (1989), “Elektronik Müzik” (1991), “Ertesi Günce” (1994), and “Yokistan Tasarısı” (1997).
Discography:
For Acoustic instruments:
September Moon, a Nocturnal Seascape for orchestra
Antistrophes for flute and piano
Deformations for clarinet and piano
Idols of Perversity for solo viola and string ensemble (1974)
Monologlar (Monologue) for clarinet and viola (1997)
Monologue I for unaccompanied clarinet
Monologue II for unaccompanied violin
Monologue III for unaccompanied English horn
Üç parça (1952)
Pieces Sentimentales for piano
Anı ve Günce Sonatı for piano
Rosa for piano (1978)
Valses ignobles et sentencieuses for piano
Yaylı dördüller
Yaylı çalgılar için gece ezgileri
Sessions for piano (1977)
String Quartet No.4 "Like There′s Tomorrow", with voice obbligato
Electronic music:
Görsel Çalışma (1965)
Agony (1965)
Immolation Scene (1983)
Preludes for magnetic tape (1966–1976)
Music for Jean Dubuffet′s Coucou Bazar
Le Tombeau d′Edgar A. Poe (1964)
Intermezzo (1964)
Bowery Bum (1964)
Wings of the Delirious Demon (1969)
Sing Me a Song of Songmy (1971)
To Kill a Sunrise (1974)
Tract, a composition of Agitprop Music for electromagnetic tape (1975) (Folkways Records)
To Kill a Sunrise and La Ruche (1976) (Folkways Records)
Reference: wikipedia.org, pankitap.com, pankitap.com, google.com.tr/images
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