Kamran Ince

about

Kamran Ince (born 1960) is a composer of Turkish-American descent. He was born in Glendive, Montana, but at six moved with his family to Turkey. He entered the Ankara Conservatory at the age of ten, where he began studying cello and piano, and he took composition lessons with Ilhan Baran. In 1977 came further composition studies at Izmir University with Muammer Sun, but Ince returned to the United States in 1978, where he enrolled at Oberlin College in Ohio, and went on to complete his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music. His teachers included David Burge, Joseph Schwantner, Christopher Rouse, Samuel Adler and Barbara Kolb. In 1987, Ince won the Prix de Rome and the Guggenheim Fellowship and the next year, he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan to become a visiting professor at the University of Michigan. In 1992 he joined the faculty of the University of Memphis, where he teaches composition, co-directs the University of Memphis Imagine New Music Festival. In addition, Kamran Ince founded MIAM, the Center for Advanced Research in Music at Istanbul Technical University, which he has directed since 1999. Journalist Blair Dedrick described Ince’s music as “characterized . . . by its ability to pinpoint the sonorous strains present in the jagged dissonance of elements such as a smooth cello yearning suddenly broken by an incongruent spatter of drum beats.” Although several of his works display this sudden movement between slow chord movements and the natte

top songs

albums

Ince: Symphony No. 5 - Requiem Without Words - Hot, Red, Cold, Vibrant- Before Infrared

INCE: Symphony No. 3, 'Siege of Vienna' / Symphony No. 4, 'Sardis'

Kamran Ince and Friends

Ince: Constantinople

Ince: Music for a Lost Earth

Songs In Other Words - Schafe können sicher weiden

In White

Wild Territories

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Possession

Ince: Symphony No. 3, "Siege of Vienna" - Symphony No. 4, "Sardis"

Kamran İnce: Passion & Dreams

Kamran Ince: Judgment of Paris

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