Mehmet C. Yesilcay

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Musician & Composer.

More than 200 concerts worldwide as ud player with the ensemble SARBAND;

concerts with Concerto Köln (Alla Turca)

Soloist on numerous Jazz- and Ethno-music projects

Musical director and conductor of the FERAHFEZA and EMRE ENSEMBLE

Musical adviser and soloist at the 1. Münchner Biennale in association with Hans Werner Henze

Composer of various orchestral, instrumental, and vocal works.

Recorded various thematic CDs: the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Ottoman music, etc.

Awards from the federal television- and broadcasting institution of Turkey TRT

Nominated for the cultural award by the Landeshauptstadt München (state capital, Munich)

Composed several Film Scores;

Collaboration with the ensemble for historical and traditional music by the Cabinet of Cultures (under the leadership of Ahmet Özhan)

Concerts and arrangements of works by the composer Eric Satie

Concerts, as Musical Director with large Sufi Orchestra (Mevlevi) at, among others, the Münchner Philharmonie

Composition and arrangement of arias of Handel for the soprano Edita Gruberova

Dolby-Surround 5.1 Production ..Club Markiz..

Solo project and album EX ORIENTE LUX

Concerts with Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI (Villancicos, Colon, Orient-Occident) Collaboration with L ..arte del Mondo (Mozart, Handel, Rossi, and Demantius)

Pasticcio ARMIDA www.pera-ensemble.com/armida

Studies and graduation at the FH München Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (Dipl. Ing. graduated Industrial Engineering) Studies of compositions and lute (UD) under Cinuçen. Tanrikorur

Studies of theological music (Sufimusic) under Seyyid Nusret Yesilçay

Mehmet C. Yesilçay is the director of the Pera Ensemble

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