Turgut Erçetin studied composition and music theory with Pieter Snapper, Kamran Ince, and Michael Ellison at the Istanbul Technical University Center for Advanced Music Studies (MIAM). Despite his young age, Mr. Erçetin’s music has been performed widely in Turkey, USA and Europe.
Erçetin’s compositional focus lies on post-spectral as well as computer-aided music. By using unconventional instrumentations such as didgeridoo, throat singing, kora, viola de gamba, and electric guitar and so forth, he introduces a wide range of soundscapes into his works.
Since fall 2009, Turgut Erçetin participates in the Graduate Program for Composition at Stanford University in California to work with Brian Ferneyhough and further focus on computer music at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
Special thanks to the Harvard University Music Department and Süleyman Yerçil