Turgut Erçetin
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 has already received several commissions for solo as well as ensemble compositions from artists such as the German contemporary music group “ADAPTER”, the American clarinet player Richard Faria, and the Turkish pianist Seda Röder.
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.
From fall 2009 on, Turgut Erçetin will participate 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).
