Sinem Altan

Sinem Altan (* 1985 in Ankara , Turkey ) is a composer and pianist.

At the age of eleven, she passed the entrance examination at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin for the fields of composition and piano and has lived in Berlin ever since, where she has now completed her musical training.

With her Three Preludes for Freaking Out (2000) for piano, she won first prize in Category A of the Youth Composed Competition . Other compositions for piano and other instruments as well as voice had premieres in Berlin a. a. in the Passionskirche . Altan also composed an accordion solo with Omuzlarinda for Nancy Laufer , which was premiered by Laufer himself. In 2008 the Singspiel Turkish for Lovers (Libretto: Dilek Güngör ) premiered at the Neukölln Opera , for which she wrote the music. As “Composer in Residence” Sinem Altan composed and directed “City of Dogs” (Ikarus Prize 2010) and “TangoTürk” at the Neukölln Opera. Since 2009 she has directed the intercultural family concerts of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra as a composer and pianist. The focus of her creative work is the dialogue between German and Turkish contexts. Most recently she realized and directed together with Begüm Tüzemen and Özgür Ersoy, the ensemble members of Olivinn, the festival project "deLIGHTed" funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, which was celebrated with great success from September 22nd to October 2nd, 2011 with 5 world premieres in the Atze Musiktheater .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sinem Altan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Detailed page about Sinem Altan
• Own website