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Artist
Ataç Sezer
5+ albums
pianoinstrumentalcontemporary classicalexperimentalcomposer
about
With eight or nine years old knew Ataç Sezer, who was born in 1979 in Istanbul, that he wanted to show the world differently than it has been shown, and it was unclear just yet whether he would do as a painter, a musician or a writer. Enforced was ultimately the music: Sezer studied piano and musicology, in parallel with traditional Ottoman music of the Ney reed flute as main instrument. He went to Germany and made his first compositional experience with the argentinean composer Diego H. Feinstein. Later, Sezer continued his composition studies with Matthias Pintscher in Munich and Dieter Schnebel in Berlin. Sezer scoops for his works from quite different springs: from the modal Turkish sound systems for which he has considered new notation forms, from the mikrotonal music as well as the electronic music. He experiments with pleasure with new play technologies and loves to combine western and eastern instruments. Sezer gained the first results with projects for the German theatre of Göttingen (2005) and the DOCUMENTA (2007). His work Peschrev, a piece for Ney, E- Bass and electronics introduced Ataç Sezer in 2008 the music scholarship of the capital of Munich. 2009 the composer was distinguished with the scholarship of the art endowment North Rhine-Westphalia Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. 2010 Sezer received commissions from musica viva, MusikTriennale Köln, HörBlicke21 and was invited with his works to the international music Festival “Heidelberger Frühling“. Ataç Sezer went
