Adil Arslan

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Adil Arslan (* 1962 in Turkey ) is an interpreter and teacher of Anatolian music in Berlin. The virtuoso Saz player founded the German-Turkish Music Academy for traditional Turkish music, song and dance in the late 1990s . On his instrument, Arslan also participated in countless CD and LP music productions, but also published solo albums as a singer and edited music books as a composer .

Life

Arslan came to West Germany in 1979 from a predominantly Alevi village in eastern Anatolia. The autodidact on the long-necked lute, who later learned from well-known masters such as Nida Tüfekci and Ali Ekber Cicek, soon taught numerous Berlin children of Turkish parents on the baglama. Activities in Berlin music schools and substantial participation in the organization of major concerts by Arif Sağ , Musa Eroğlus and Zülfü Livanelis in Berlin made him well-known in the Berlin migrant scene at an early stage. He called his first music school the Orient Music School .

At the same time artistic director and lecturer of the German-Turkish Music Academy he later founded, at which well-known musicians such as Tahsin İncirci also appear as lecturers, the long-necked virtuoso is also active as a composer and singer.

Arslan's technique on the Baglama is considered to be style-forming. But especially his collaboration with Carlo Domeniconi and musicians from the Berlin Symphony was something completely new within the art of playing baglama, which had hitherto been more folkloric. In the world premiere of the Berlinbul Concerto (1987), a double concert for saz, guitar and orchestra Domeniconi in the Philharmonie, Arslan received the first attention of a larger German audience as a saz soloist for the composition commissioned by the Berlin Senate for the celebrations of "750 Years of Berlin" .

To this day, Arslan and groups led by him have performed at numerous other official events in Berlin, e. B. the Carnival of Cultures .

Adil Arslan's solo albums as a singer and instrumentalist carried titles such as Bati dogu divani and Üryan and were released by Turkish record companies.

Livaneli about Arslan

The well-known Turkish musician and writer Zülfü Livaneli wrote the following reference for the homepage of Arslan's newly established academy on January 15, 1999:

“I've known Adil Arslan for years. Although he is based in Berlin, his heart has remained connected to the ballads of Anatolia. He does not understand his artistic activity purely as such. Much more important for him was and is his concern to build a bridge between Anatolian and Western music. His unconventional activity in this area led to the further development of the authentic way of playing the bağlama (saz) and even that the bağlama was used in a classical orchestra. The work with Carlo Domeniconi and Berlin Symphony musicians in this field is one of the first of its kind. "

Discography (selection)

Literature on Arslan

  • Gunther Noll, Helga Stein: Musical folk culture as a social opportunity. Lay music and singing tradition as a socially integrative field; Yearbook for Folk Song Research, 43rd year, 1998 (1998), pp. 195–198

Films about Arslan

  • Constanze Suhr, Burkhard Voiges: Between Cultures - Musicians from Turkey in Berlin . TV feature (58'03 ″) from Sendung Nord III (SFB), 1987

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oriental tones in Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 17, 1999
  2. ↑ Presentation: Colors of Society A report on Germany - photographs and texts by Ilker Maga  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadtkultur.bremen.de  
  3. ↑ Press release about concert of the German-Turkish Music Academy ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Arslan, Adil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish musician and saz player
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Turkey