Tahsin İncirci

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Tahsin İncirci (* 1941 in Devrek ) is a Turkish composer, choir director, violinist and violin teacher at the Leo Borchard Music School in Berlin.

Life

İncirci came to Germany in the early 1960s with a DAAD scholarship . Before that, he had graduated from the music teaching department of the Gazi Institute in Ankara and was then a music teacher at the grammar school for a year. In Germany, he first studied for two semesters at the Detmold Music Academy and then went to Berlin to the Hochschule der Künste (HdK, today: UdK). He majored in violin and minor in composition and choral conducting.

From 1970 to 1972 he was a member of the orchestra of the State Opera and the Radio Chamber Orchestra in Istanbul before returning to West Berlin in 1973, where he initiated the establishment of the Turkish Workers' Choir. At this time, the 23 violin duos on Turkish folk tunes were also published by Robert-Lienau Verlag Berlin (West).

In 1977 his oratorio Das Epos vom Scheich Bedreddin was premiered in the Sender Free Berlin (SFB).

The first LP with his own compositions was published by Plans Verlag in 1979. Two years later he went on a tour with Sümeyra and Lutz Görner under the title I love my country through the FRG and West Berlin. He conceived the project with Renan Demirkan ... but people came ... in the Nuremberg theater. He also founded the Ensemble Kreuzberger Freunde .

Tahsin İncirci composed stage music in collaboration with the director Vasif Öngören in Amsterdam and also for the Turkish theater Tiyatrom for the plays Pir Sultan and Bozkirdirligi .

During a six-month stay in Paris in 1991, he worked with the theater group Comediens du People . From 1997 to 2002 he directed the ensemble of Turkish classical music in Berlin .

Since 2005 he has been playing in Duo Divan with the jazz pianist Wolfgang Köhler alongside his professional activity . Tahsin İncirci lives in Berlin.

Works (selection)

  • 1979: LP songs from abroad / songs for peace . Soloist: Sümeyra .
  • 1981: Book Music in Turkey (Express Edition West Berlin).
  • 1985: MC Meine Lieder are for you with the Ensemble Kreuzberger Freunde and the singer Sema.
  • 1986: LP We come a long way ... at Trikont Munich.

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personal data
SURNAME İncirci, Tahsin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish composer, choir director, violinist and lecturer for violin at the Leo Borchard Music School in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Karaburun