Kudsi Erguner

Kudsi Ergüner (2012)

Kudsi Ergüner (born February 4, 1952 in Diyarbakır ) is a Turkish nay player and composer.

Career

Ergüner learned to play the nay from his father Ulvi Ergüner and his grandfather Suleyman Ergüner, who were both important masters on the flute instrument, and was shaped by contacts with the Sufi order of the Mevlevi .

In 1969 he became a member of the Istanbul Radio Orchestra; In 1975 he went to Paris, where he studied architecture and musicology. The following year he worked on the shooting of Peter Brooks' film Meetings With Remarkable Men in Afghanistan . He was later also a composer and performing musician on Brooks' play and film Mahabharata .

After a study trip through Turkey on behalf of UNESCO in 1980, he founded the Institut Mevlani in Paris , where classical music and the teachings of the Sufi are taught. In 1986 and 1987 he made extensive trips through Afghanistan to record and document traditional music. At the end of 1987 he gave a concert with music from the Ottoman court in the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Kudsi Ergüner Ensemble (2012): Pierre Rigopoulos ( Bendir ), Murat Aydemir ( Tanbur ), Kudsi Erguner (Nay)

In 1988 he founded the group Fasi , which later became the Kudsi Ergüner Ensemble , and worked with Peter Gabriel on the soundtrack for Martin Scorsese's film The Last Temptation Of Christ . In the 1990s he recorded several of his most important albums and composed two ballets: Neva with Carolyn Carlson for the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (1991) and Le voyage nocturne with Maurice Béjart for the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (1997). In 1999 he founded the Kudsi Ergüner Sufi-Jazz Project with Christof Lauer , Michel Godard and Mark Nauseef , with which he developed Ottomania and in 2001 (with a different line-up) Islam Blues , world music projects that combine classical Ottoman music with new improvisational music and jazz.

Discography

• Meditation on the Ney
• Turkey: Art of the Ottoman Tanbur , 1989
• Sufi Music of Turkey with Suleyman Ergüner , Mahmoud Tabrizi Zadeh , Bruno Caillat , 1990
• The Turkish Ney with Salih Dede , Suleyman Ergüner, 1990
• Whirling Dervishes from Turkey with Kemal Evren , Tugrul Inancer , Aram Kerovpyan , Muzzffereddîn Ozak , Hafiz Kemâl Ozmutlu , Mahmud Tabrîzîzade , 1991
• Gazel: Classical Sufi Music of the Ottoman Empire with Husnu Anil , Aziz Bahriyeli , Yusuf Bilgin , Mehmet Emin Bitmez , Suleyman Erguner, Hasan Esen , Fevzi Misir , Walter Quintus , Kurt Renker , 1994
• Peshrev & Semai of Tanburi Djemil Bey with Walter Quintus, 1994
• L 'Orient de l'Occident: Flamenco & Ottoman Sufi Music with Yusuf Bilgin. Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Bruno Caillat, Pedro Soler , 1995
• Ottoman Classical Music , 1995
• The Sacred Flute of the Whirling Dervishes , 1996
• Works of Kemani Tatyos Efendi with Husnu Anil, Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Suleyman Ergüner, Necip Gulses , Dogan Hosses , Sükrü Kabaci , Baki Kemanci , 1996
• Vocal Masterpieces of Kemani Tatyos Efendi with Husnu Anil, Suleyman Ergüner, Necip Gulses, Dogan Hosses, Sükrü Kabaci, Baki Kemanci, 1996
• Psalms of Yunus Emre with Yusuf Bilgin, Bruno Caillat, 1997
• Chemins with Pierre Rigopoulos , Martin Saint-Pierre , Derya Türkan , 1997
• Music from the Arabian Nights with Bruno Caillat, Tabrizi Mahmoud Zadeh , 1999
• Ottomania with Christof Lauer , Derya Türkan, Yves Rousseau , Michel Godard , Mark Nauseef , Bruno Caillat, Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Hakan Gungor, Necib Gulses, Walter Quintus, 1999
• Islam Blues , 2001 with Bruno Caillat, Renaud Garcia-Fons , Nguyên Lê , Derya Türkan, Mark Nausesf, Yunus Balcioglu, Halil Neciboglu, Walter Quintus
• Taj Mahal with Bruno Caillat, Sultan Khan , Fazal Qureshi , Derya Türkan, Ken Zukerman , 2001
• Gazing Point with Markus Stockhausen , Mark Nauseef, Walter Quintus, 2003
• No Matter , with Markus Stockhausen, Mark Nauseef, Bill Laswell , Walter Quintus, 2008

Web links

Commons : Kudsi Ergüner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• kudsierguner.com (English and French)
• Kudsi Erguner on culturebase.net
• Review of the album Ottomania ( German ; PDF file; 129 kB)

Interviews

• Islam is the benchmark Kudsi Erguner, interview on the main features of the Mevlevi tradition.