Hasan Yukselir

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Hasan Yükselir (* Pazarcık , Turkey ) is a Turkish singer and composer who sings mostly Turkish folk songs ( Türkü ).

Life

Yükselir was born in Pazarcık . He spent his childhood and youth in Antep . Yükselir completed a bachelor's degree in music at Gazi Üniversitesi in Ankara and then a master's degree in theater at the Faculty of Language, History and Geography at Ankara University. There he received composition lessons from Turgut Aldemir and vocal training from Sevim Çidamlı (soprano).

In 1984 Hasan Yükselir accepted a position at the Ankara State Theater. In 1994 he moved to Berlin at the age of 38 and has worked mainly in Berlin and Turkey since then. His son Fırat Yükselir was born in 1981 and his daughter Dijle Yükselir in 1986 , both of whom are also well-known musicians.

Artistic creation and music style

Hasan Yükselir is a musical cosmopolitan and one of the most outstanding musicians in his country. Hasan Yükselir mainly composes and processes traditional, Anatolian folk tunes in both classical, western forms of music and in jazz mode, and interprets them with his classically trained singing voice. He participated in plays and musicals , brought out several music albums, and composes music for films and for German and Turkish television, including the soundtrack for the films "Street of Hope" ( Umut Sokağı ) by Serif Gören , "A Long, narrow way “( Uzun İnce bir Yol ) by Tunç Başaran ," Don't tell Orhan Pamuk that his novel »Snow« appears in my film "(Orhan Pamuk'a Söylemeyin Kars'ta Çektiğim Filmde Kar Romanı da Var)" by Riza Sönmez and "Locman" by Şükrü Alaçam.

Hasan Yükselir's artistic concern is to make the Anatolian song and the poetry of well-known Turkish mystics and poets such as Yunus Emre and Nâzım Hikmet better known around the world, especially through the higher arts and with qualified, well-trained and long-term artists. He sees art music and academic music training as the way to the cultural development of music.

In 1996 he composed the “Bağlama Konçertosu” which was premiered by the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne . In 1997 the chamber opera “saw hands the roses bind in darker earth” with poems by Yunus Emre and in 2002, after 5 years of research, the song cycle “Sevda Ateşten Gömlek” based on poems by Nâzım Hikmet .

In Germany, Hasan Yükselir's interpretations of Anatolian songs ( Türkü ) are often associated with the romanticism of songs in the Schubert style , and are often characterized by a creative mixture of Anatolian folklore , epic recitation , Renaissance songs and jazz-like interludes.

He performs live in concerts and international recitals across Europe. Concerts in the Cologne Philharmonic (WDR), the Alte Oper Frankfurt and in the House of World Cultures in Berlin are among the most important appearances in his musical career. In addition, he musically accompanies Semah dance events of the Alevis in Germany .

Since 2014 he has been the artistic director of the MainWeltmusik Festival in Offenbach am Main, with the aim of bringing people of different origins together to celebrate, share and develop our common cultural and spiritual heritage.

Discography

  • 1992: Günler
  • 1993: Konserlerim
  • 1994: Ayrılık - Herkes Gibisin
  • 1998: Su Türküler
  • 2001: Göç Türküler
  • 2002: Sevda Ateşten Gömlek - Nazım Şarkıları
  • 2004: Ben Türküyüm
  • 2014: Yel - Saz'dan Caz'a

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview (Turkish)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Türkü - A conversation with Hasan Yükselir, Die Brücke, Volume XXIII, Issue 132, Apr-Jun 2004/2 (German)
  3. ↑ a b page no longer available , search in web archives: Amazement about the mysticism of Islam, Kölner Rundschau, number 232, October 7, 1997 (German)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wordpress.hasanyukselir.de
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Die Musik der Migranten, Der Tagesspiegel from April 27, 2000 (German)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wordpress.hasanyukselir.de
  5. ^ Martin Greve: Alevi and musical identities in Germany. In: Zentrum für Türkeistudien (Ed.): Turkey Yearbook of the Center for Turkish Studies 2000/2001. Lit, Münster 2001, p. 227
  6. ^ National press. December 9, 2011, accessed October 6, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Yukselir, Hasan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Pazarcık