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Ali Özkan Manav (born May 20, 1967) is a Turkish composer of contemporary classical music.[1] His earlier works reveal influences of Saygun, Usmanbaş and Ligeti (in rhythmic and contrapuntal design), at times progressing through aleatoric sections (in orchestral works). Later works combine newer timbral concerns with maqamic pitch content, microtones and elements of folk music (ornamentations, vocal and instrumental practices, etc.).[2]
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Born in Mersin, a Mediterranean city in Southern Turkey, his family moved to Istanbul in 1971.[citation needed] He was introduced to music by his mother, who was a ballet dancer before her marriage.[citation needed] He started private piano lessons with Hülya Saydam in 1980, his first compositions appeared in 1981. He entered at the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory's composition department in 1984 and became a student of Erçivan Saydam (harmony and counterpoint), Adnan Saygun (composition, modal music and fugue) and Afşar Timuçin (history of thinking, literature and aesthetics).[citation needed] After his graduation in 1991, he was appointed as an instructor in the same institution.[citation needed] Between 1991-96 he was a student in the composition class of İlhan Usmanbaş; earned his master's degree in 1994, pursued qualification in arts studies until 1996.[citation needed] From 1996 to 1999 he studied at Boston University with Lukas Foss and Marjorie Merryman.[citation needed] Upon finishing his doctoral studies at Boston University, he returned to Turkey and began to teach composition at his native institution, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory in Istanbul. At present he is a faculty member in the same institution.[3][4]
• Symposium (1991)
• Andante Lugubre (1993)
• Sforzati (1997–98)
• Carian Diary (2001)
• Portamento lento (2002)
• Four Turkish Folk Songs (2010)
• Sinfonietta, wind instruments, timpani and xylophone (1989–90)
• Symphonic Dances, 7 percussionists (1999-2000)
• Reflections, piano and nine performers (2006)
• Countryside Landscapes: Winter, fourteen string instruments (2007)
• Uzun Hava, eight winds and two string instruments (2011)
• Artvin Dance, brass quintet (1991, rev. 2002)
• Sonata, violin and piano (1992)
• Poems with Music, six musicians and narrator (1995–96)
• Wanderings, two oboes, two clarinets and alto saxophone (1996−97, rev. 1998, 2004)
• Laçin, arrangement for piano trio (2003)
• Four Pieces for Five Clarinets (2003–04)
• Reflections, accordion and piano (2004–05)
• Three Turkish Folk Songs, violoncello and piano (2008–09)
• The Land of Beautiful Horses, string quartet (2010)
• String Quartet (2012)
• Partita, viola (1991−92, rev. 2003)
• Face-to-Face with Saygun: Proliferations on Five Pieces from Modal Music, violin (2005)
• Taqsim, clarinet (2005)
• Pigeons, harp (2010)
• Horon!, violin (2011)
• Movement 1 (1994)
• Movement 2 (1998)
• Movement 3 (2001)
• Movement 4 (2001)
• Movement 5 (2006)
• Movement 6 (2009)
Nazım Hikmet Songs, baritone and piano (1997–98)
• Spoon Dance Air (1990)
• Dök zülfünü meydâna gel, polyphonic arrangement (1991)
• Allam alam, polyphonic arrangement for choir and percussions (1994)
• Kız sen geldin Çerkeş’ten, polyphonic arrangement (2001)
Müzikte Alımlama (Reception in Music), Pan Yayıncılık, Istanbul, 2012. [with Mehmet Nemutlu]
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