Tolga Yayalar
Before coming to Harvard University in 2003, Tolga Yayalar studied Jazz Composition and Jazz Guitar at the Berklee College of Music. At Harvard, Tolga worked with Bernard Rands, Julian Anderson, Harrison Birtwistle, Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann.
As a result of his encounter with the music of Anton Webern, his first “classical” works incorporated serialist techniques with a jazz idiom. Today, Tolga’s music focuses on different systems of microtonality and reflects his interests in architecture, psychoanalysis and post-structural narratives. His music received performances by significant contemporary music players such as Ying Quartet, Orchestre National de Lorraine and Garth Knox.
