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Yiğit Aydın was born in 1971 in Turkey. He studied musical composition graduated from Ankara State Conservatory at Hacettepe University. He completed his master’s degree in orchestral conducting. Parallel to his musical education, he completed his studies at Middle East Technical University in Ankara with a BS degree in mechanical engineering, and thereafter a MS in sociology, focusing on contemporary social thought, deconstruction, Orientalism, Colonialism and Nationalism. In his compositions, Aydın mainly deals with the cultural difference among the western and eastern (musical) domains, endeavoring to problematize the commonly accepted oppositional perspective regarding them and, therefore, the clichés corresponding to this mode of perception.
A part of this effort is to consider the extra-European element not merely as coloristic constituent, i.e. a spicy ingredient, in a thoroughly western compositional attitude, but on the contrary a resource from which principles of composition may flourish. Besides his compositional activities, Aydın has given conference talks and published many articles in Turkish, English and German on New Turkish Music and Classical Turkish Art Music, and specifically about the central-European influence on these two musical spheres.
Currently, Aydın prepares his Ph.D. thesis on the theme "New Turkish Music" at Musicological Institute in Marburg, Germany and lives in Frankfurt am Main. Through three composition prizes, he received a broader recognition in Turkey. Subsequently his compositions take part in international music festivals in Istanbul and Ankara, performed by leading Turkish orchestras and conductors, and some appeared in CD-recordings.
Selected his composition works:
"Adım-Oyun-Ağır-Başka", 2002
"Sahne", 2004
"Anders for piano and strings", 2005 (it was premiered by the Detmold Chamber Orchestra and the pianist Yeşim Gökalp in the Ankara Music Festival)
"Emre Saygun Opera", 2009 (it was premiered by the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in the Ankara Music Festival)
Reference: wearetheturks.org, klasiknotlari.com
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