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taylan susam
12+ albums
contemporary classicalexperimentalcomposerdutchmodern composition
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Taylan Susam (born November 18, 1986) is a Turkish-Dutch composer of experimental music. He is a member of the Wandelweiser group,[1] which has been described by The New Yorker as "an informal network of twenty or so experimental-minded composers who share an interest in slow music, quiet music, spare music, fragile music." Susam grew up in Amsterdam, where he attended the Barlaeus Gymnasium.[3] He studied composition with Martijn Padding and Yannis Kyriakides at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and privately with Antoine Beuger and Samuel Vriezen, among others.[4] His compositions have been performed in more than a dozen countries,[5] at such venues as the Experimental Sound Gallery Saint Petersburg,[6] Galerie Mark Müller,[7] Glenn Gould Studio,[8] Goethe-Institut Amsterdam,[9] Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk,[10] Hafnarborg,[11] ISSUE Project Room,[12] Kid Ailack Art Hall, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders,[13] Kunstraum, Magna Plaza, Maison des Jeunesses Musicales,[14] SMART Project Space, St Anne and St Agnes,[15] The Stone,[16] REDCAT,[17] and at festivals such as Ostrava Days,[18] November Music,[19] Dark Music Days,[11] Transit,[20] the ISCM Pan Music Festival, and the Amsterdam Wandelweiser Festival. Performers of Susam's music have included Quatuor Bozzini,[14] Asko Ensemble, Ensemble Chronophonie, Ensemble Sisyphe, Incidental Music, Nordic Affect, S.E.M. Ensemble, Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, Dante Boon, Erik Carlson, Eve Egoyan,[8] Eva-Maria Houben, Radu Malfatti, Mic
