KAMRAN INCE, Composer
Hailed by The Los Angeles Times as "that rare composer, able to sound connected with modern music and yet still seem exotic," Kamran Ince is a force on the cutting edge of contemporary composition, bridging the East and the West. His numerous prizes include the Prix de Rome, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lili Boulanger Prize. His Waves of Talya has the distinction of being named "one of the best chamber works of the 20th Century by a living composer" by Chamber Music Magazine. Born in Montana in 1960 to American and Turkish parents, Ince holds a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, and currently serves as professor of composition at University of Memphis and as Co-Director of MIAM at Istanbul Technical University.
Leading orchestras throughout the world perform his works. Concerts devoted to his music have been heard recently at the Holland Festival, CBC Encounter Series in Toronto, the Istanbul International Music Festival, the Estoril Festival in Lisbon, and the Cultural Influences in Globalization Festival in Ho Chi Minh City.
His latest projects include Far Variations (2009), commissioned by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music for the Los Angeles Piano Quartet; Concerto for Orchestra Turkish Instruments and Voices (2009), for the Turkish Ministry of Culture; Dreamlines (2008), celebrating the centennial of the Turkish Chamber of Architects; Music for a Lost Earth (Ambient Music Project) (2007); Gloria (Everywhere) (2007), for Chanticleer's Mass Project; Turquoise (2005), various works arranged for the Netherlands Blazers Ensemble; and his fifth symphony Galatasaray (2005), in honor of the infamous soccer club's centennial celebrations.
Four new CD's from Naxos have just been released in August 2010. They are Music for a Lost Earth, Galatasaray, Hammers & Whistlers and Constantinople. Along with Kamran Ince this brings his total releases with Naxos to five CD's. His other CD's include In White on Innova, Fall of Constantinople on Argo/Decca and Kamran Ince & Friends on Albany.
Ince continues to work on Judgment of Midas, an opera under development at American Opera Projects, commissioned by Crawford Greenewalt, Jr. III, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sardis excavations in Turkey. It will be co-produced internationally starting in 2011. Ince is one of the composers that is participating in the creation of the Gallipoli Symphony, commissioned by Canberra International Music Festival, to mark the centennial in 2015 of the 1st World War battle of Gallipoli.
His music is published by Schott Music Corporation.
http://kamranince.com/
Hailed by The Los Angeles Times as "that rare composer, able to sound connected with modern music and yet still seem exotic," Kamran Ince is a force on the cutting edge of contemporary composition, bridging the East and the West. His numerous prizes include the Prix de Rome, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lili Boulanger Prize. His Waves of Talya has the distinction of being named "one of the best chamber works of the 20th Century by a living composer" by Chamber Music Magazine. Born in Montana in 1960 to American and Turkish parents, Ince holds a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, and currently serves as professor of composition at University of Memphis and as Co-Director of MIAM at Istanbul Technical University.
Leading orchestras throughout the world perform his works. Concerts devoted to his music have been heard recently at the Holland Festival, CBC Encounter Series in Toronto, the Istanbul International Music Festival, the Estoril Festival in Lisbon, and the Cultural Influences in Globalization Festival in Ho Chi Minh City.
His latest projects include Far Variations (2009), commissioned by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music for the Los Angeles Piano Quartet; Concerto for Orchestra Turkish Instruments and Voices (2009), for the Turkish Ministry of Culture; Dreamlines (2008), celebrating the centennial of the Turkish Chamber of Architects; Music for a Lost Earth (Ambient Music Project) (2007); Gloria (Everywhere) (2007), for Chanticleer's Mass Project; Turquoise (2005), various works arranged for the Netherlands Blazers Ensemble; and his fifth symphony Galatasaray (2005), in honor of the infamous soccer club's centennial celebrations.
Four new CD's from Naxos have just been released in August 2010. They are Music for a Lost Earth, Galatasaray, Hammers & Whistlers and Constantinople. Along with Kamran Ince this brings his total releases with Naxos to five CD's. His other CD's include In White on Innova, Fall of Constantinople on Argo/Decca and Kamran Ince & Friends on Albany.
Ince continues to work on Judgment of Midas, an opera under development at American Opera Projects, commissioned by Crawford Greenewalt, Jr. III, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sardis excavations in Turkey. It will be co-produced internationally starting in 2011. Ince is one of the composers that is participating in the creation of the Gallipoli Symphony, commissioned by Canberra International Music Festival, to mark the centennial in 2015 of the 1st World War battle of Gallipoli.
His music is published by Schott Music Corporation.
http://kamranince.com/
