Marc Sinan

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Marc Sinan (born May 15, 1976 ) is a German-Turkish-Armenian composer and guitarist .

life and work

Marc Sinan was born in 1976 to a Turkish-Armenian mother and a German father. He has played on international concert stages since his early youth. From 1990 he studied with Eliot Fisk and Joaquín Clerch at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. As assistant to Franz Halasz, he taught a guitar class at the Augsburg University of Music until 2003 .

In addition to solo concerts and chamber music projects with partners such as Julia Hülsmann , Jörg Widmann , the Turkish percussionist Burhan Öçal , and the Rodin Quartet , Marc Sinan has played as a soloist with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , the Georgian Chamber Orchestra and others. Europe-wide concert tours through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Turkey and Spain, followed by tours in North and South America. He performed in the Jordan Hall in Boston (for the world premiere of Daniel Pinkham's Sagas), the music hall in Hamburg (with percussionist Burhan Öcal) and the Teatro Nacional in Havana as well as in the Philharmonie in Munich and the Mozart Hall in Salzburg.

Marc Sinan was the focus of numerous radio and TV recordings, including for Bavarian Radio , Austrian Radio and the Turkish broadcaster Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu (TRT). In 1994 his debut CD A Royal Christmas - Marc Sinan and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was released by Polydor .

In 1998 the composer Jörg Widmann dedicated the commissioned work Entschwebung for guitar and electronics to him , which Marc Sinan recorded on CD along with works by Robert Beaser and Toru Takemitsu .

In January 2000, Marc Sinan collected money on a charity tour through 15 German cities for his Sounds are Friends project , thus enabling music lessons for over 70 orphans in Gölcük near Istanbul, who had lost their families in the 1999 earthquake, until 2006.

Since his tour From Istanbul to Buenos Aires (2002) with Burhan Öçal, Marc Sinan has also worked intensively with musicians from other genres. He could be heard as a soloist with a jazz ensemble in his Wes Montgomery project Livin 'Swing - a collaboration with pianist and arranger Marc Schmolling .

In 2008 he recorded the Fasil project with the composer and pianist Julia Hülsmann and the author and director Marc Schiffer , which was published by ECM . In 2011 he developed the concert installation Hasretim - an Anatolian journey with the Dresden Symphony Orchestra . In 2011 he wrote the music for the documentary Cinem Jenin .

Together with the Dresden Symphony Orchestra, he received the special prize of the German UNESCO Commission for Hasretim in 2011 - an Anatolian journey as an impressive representation of an "inspiring and experimental confrontation between different cultures."

In 2015, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide , his third musical theater project after “Hasretim” and “Dede Korkut” was performed in Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater : “Komitas”. It commemorates the Armenian priest, composer and ethnomusicologist Komitas Vardapet , who survived the genocide in 1915 and yet broke it. Holger Kuhla wrote the libretto. In 2019 he presented the production Upon Nothingness , which he had recorded with the Turkish clarinetist Oğuz Büyükberber .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Mauró : Man, have mercy . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 19, 2014, accessed on February 6, 2016
  2. ↑ Guitarist becomes 1st YEAH! Young EARopean Award presented
  3. ↑ Helmut Mauró: How to survive a genocide. Global trauma therapy: Marc Sinan's docufictional music theater "Komitas" traces the suffering of the Armenian priest and musician of the same name and transforms the culture of remembrance into the art of remembrance . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 15, 2015, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Sinan, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish-Armenian guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1976