Kudsi Erguner

 
Style of Art : Artist / ney player, reseacher
Branch of Art : Turkish classical music: ney
Art Profile :

Kudsi Erguner was born in Diyarbakır in 1952. He started his musical education at Istanbul Radio in 1969. He then moved to Paris, and studied architecture and musicology. In 1981, Erguner established the Mevlana Institute, and has researched on Turkish, Middle Eastern and Asian music. In 1988, he founded Kudsi Erguner Ensamble. For many years, he was a producer of music programmes for the French Radio. He introduced ney, Turkish Sufi Music and the musical culture of Istanbul to the world through many concerts and his albums. He has written music for films produced by Peter Brook, Marco Ferreri and Scorsese, and has worked with musicians such as Peter Gabriel, Didier Lockwood, Alice and Michel Portal and Jen-Marc Padovanni.

His albums:
Meditation on the Ney
Turkey: Art of the Ottoman Tanbur, 1989
Sufi Music of Turkey, Süleyman Erguner, Mahmoud Tabrizi Zadeh, Bruno Caillat, 1990
The Turkish Ney, Salih Dede, Süleyman Erguner, 1990
Whirling Dervishes from Turkey, Kemal Evren, Tuğrul İnançer, Aram Kerovpyan, Muzzffereddîn Ozak, Hafız Kemâl Özmutlu, Mahmud Tabrîzîzade, 1991
Gazel: Classical Sufi Music of the Ottoman Empire, Hüsnü Anıl, Aziz Bahriyeli, Yusuf Bilgin, Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Süleyman Erguner, Hasan Esen, Fevzi Mısır, Walter Quintus, Kurt Renker, 1994
Peshrev & Semai of Tanburi Djemil Bey, 1994
L′Orient de L′Occident: Flamenco & Ottoman Sufi Music, Yusuf Bilgin. Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Bruno Caillat, Pedro Soler, 1995
Ottoman Classical Music, 1995
The Sacred Flute of the Whirling Dervishes, 1996
Works of Kemani Tatyos Efendi, with Hüsnü Anıl, Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Süleyman Erguner, Necip Gülses, Doğan Hoşses, Şükrü Kabacı, Baki Kemancı, 1996
Vocal Masterpieces of Kemani Tatyos Efendi, Hüsnü Anıl, Süleyman Erguner, Necip Gülses, Doğan Hoşses, Şükrü Kabacı, Baki Kemancı, 1996
Psalms of Yunus Emre, Yusuf Bilgin, Bruno Caillat, 1997
Chemins, Pierre Rigopoulos, Martin Saint-Pierre, Derya Türkan, 1997
Music from the Arabian Nights, Bruno Caillat, Tabrizi Mahmoud Zadeh, 1999
Ottomania, 1999
Islam Blues, Bruno Caillat, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Nguyên Lê, Derya Türkan, Mark Nausesf, Yunus Balcıoğlu, Halil Neciboğlu,2001
Taj Mahal, Bruno Caillat, Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Derya Türkan, Ken Zukerman, 2001
Gazing Point, Markus Stockhausen & Mark Nauseef, 2003

Reference: tumkonserler.net, tr.wikipedia.org, google.com.tr/images


Foundation : Kudsi Erguner Ensamble
City : Paris
Country : France
Preferred Lang. : Turkish / French / English
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