Özkan Manav

Özkan Manav
Born	Ali Özkan Manav May 20, 1967 Mersin, Turkey
Occupation	Turkish composer of contemporary classical music

Ali Özkan Manav (born May 20, 1967) is a Turkish composer of contemporary classical music. 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.).

Biography

Born in Mersin, a Mediterranean city in Southern Turkey, his family moved to Istanbul in 1971. His mother, a ballet dancer when she was young, introduced him to music. He started private piano lessons with Hülya Saydam in 1980, and his first compositions appeared the following year. He then entered the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory's composition department in 1984 and became a student of music masters named, Erçivan Saydam (harmony and counterpoint), Adnan Saygun (composition, modal music and fugue) and Afşar Timuçin (history of thinking, literature and aesthetics). After his graduation in 1991, he was appointed as an instructor in the same institution. He earned his master’s degree in 1994, while he was also a student of composition class led by İlhan Usmanbaş (between 1991-1996). From 1996 to 1999, he studied his doctoral degree at Boston University with Lukas Foss and Marjorie Merryman. Upon completion of his studies went back to Turkey where he now teaches composition at his native institution, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory in Istanbul. He is currently a faculty member in the same institution.

Works

Orchestra

• Symposium (1991)

• Andante Lugubre (1993)

• Sforzati (1997–98)

• Carian Diary (2001)

• Portamento lento (2002)

• Four Turkish Folk Songs (2010)

Chamber Ensemble

• 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)

Chamber Music

• 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)

Solo Instrument

• 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)

Piano

• Movement 1 (1994)

• Movement 2 (1998)

• Movement 3 (2001)

• Movement 4 (2001)

• Movement 5 (2006)

• Movement 6 (2009)

Vocals and piano

Nazım Hikmet Songs, baritone and piano (1997–98)

Choir

• 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)

Book

Müzikte Alımlama (Reception in Music), Pan Yayıncılık, Istanbul, 2012. [with Mehmet Nemutlu]

External links

• http://www.ozkanmanav.com
• http://www.newmusicistanbul.com/composers/ozkan-manav
• http://www.brunel.ac.uk/bicmem/composers/ozkan-manav
• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60131106-muzikte-alimlama