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Aytuğ Ülgen was born in Ankara in 1980. In 1990, he enrolled at the Piano Department in the State Conservatory of Hacettepe University. In 1998, he studied film and television at Istanbul Bilgi University. He then studied performance practices, film music, and arts management at University of Bristol. After coming back to Turkey, he studied contemporary music, musical artificial intelligence, interpretation techniques, and musical deontology at the Musicology Department of Hacettepe University, and graduated with "High Honor Degree" in 2004. He studied conventional interpretation techniques and contemporary piano literature with pianist Mehmet Okonşar, harmony and counterpoint with composer Sami Hatipoğlu, orchestral conducting with Burak Tüzün. Ülgen went to Russia and completed his master’s degree with Prof. Yuri Butsko at Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory.
From civil aviation to semiotics, anthropology to medicine with a variety of professional interests and activities, Ülgen has taken active part in various research groups since 1999. He has published many articles and translations, and has been invited on numerous national and international radio and television programs. He was one of the founders of Parşömen magazine; and of the head board publishers and supervisors committee members of famous Turkish musicology journal …Ve Muzik (1999-2004). Since 1997, he has composed occasional music and several scaled compositions for films, documentaries, commercials and theatres. Ülgen has also taken part on various national and international projects as director and coordinator. He is producer, supervisor and active participant of four programs in three institutions: TVA, Radio Başkent, Turkish National Radio and Television Company (TRT).
Ülgen has received several awards for his musicological studies and interpretations. In 2005, he was invited to England by the Liverpool Governorship, and gave a series of 13 concerts and workshops. He also gave the final concert in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on the occasion of an International Liverpool Festival.
Ülgen has translated many works from Latin, Ottoman, English and Russian into Turkish. Among his translation works are the counterpoint book Gradus ad Parnassum by Johann Josephi, which has been the most important counterpoint book for 200 years (from Latin into Turkish); three theory books on conventional modal and interpretation techniques by various Ottoman scholars in 17 - 18th centuries (from Ottoman into Turkish); Maestro Myth by Norman Lebrecht, and Conversations with Karajan by Richard Osborne, (from English into Turkish); and the Language of Conducting Gestures by Ilya Musin (from Russian into Turkish).
Ülgen has been lecturing, performing and conducting in many countries including Hungary, Italy, Estonia, Switzerland, Poland, United Kingdom, Egypt, China, New Zealand and Australia. He regularly lectures at the University of Liverpool, Bristol University, Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, Saratov Conservatory, Hacettepe University, Başkent University, Middle East Technical University, and Near East University. He is one of the chief editors of the International Musicology Journal Inventor Musicae. Ülgen is a member of several professional artistic and philosophical societies. Currently, he is continuing his doctoral degree at Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory.
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