Taner Akyol

Taner Akyol (* 1977 in Bursa ) is a Turkish saz player and composer who lives in Berlin and studied composition there at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy . His children's opera in 2 acts Ali Baba and the 40 Robbers , with the libretto by Çetin İpekkaya , was premiered in 2012 at the Komische Oper Berlin . In the "Taner Aykol Trio" he makes music with Sebastian Flaig and Antonius Anissegos .

In an interview with the daily newspaper Junge Welt he declared that he would not make "Turkish folk music" but rather Anatolian music, because in Anatolia there lived "Armenians, Kurds, Persians, Arabs, including Turks; by faith ... Christians, Alevis, Sunnis. .. That's why we call it Anatolian. "

Web links

Literature by and about Taner Akyol in the catalog of the German National Library

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↑ SWR
↑ "It is not a synthesis of anything", in: Junge Welt, June 8, 2019.
↑ The Komische Oper Berlin - Taner Akyol ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The famous composer and piano virtuoso Fazil Say writes about Taner Akyol: »Taner Akyol is without a doubt one of the most outstanding saz virtuosos of recent years. But first and foremost he is a composer. A composer who gives folk music a new face, who learns, works and strives to create something new. " @1@ 2

↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1998 "Taner Akyol (born 1977), the youngest composer currently known in Berlin, began as a saz player and tried to combine Anatolian music with 'universal elements'. Akyol only came to Berlin two years ago, ... "

↑ "It is not a synthesis of anything", in: Junge Welt, June 8, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Akyol, Taner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish saz player and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bursa

[1] SWR

[2] "It is not a synthesis of anything", in: Junge Welt, June 8, 2019.

[3] The Komische Oper Berlin - Taner Akyol ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The famous composer and piano virtuoso Fazil Say writes about Taner Akyol: »Taner Akyol is without a doubt one of the most outstanding saz virtuosos of recent years. But first and foremost he is a composer. A composer who gives folk music a new face, who learns, works and strives to create something new. " @1@ 2

[4] Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1998 "Taner Akyol (born 1977), the youngest composer currently known in Berlin, began as a saz player and tried to combine Anatolian music with 'universal elements'. Akyol only came to Berlin two years ago, ... "

[5] "It is not a synthesis of anything", in: Junge Welt, June 8, 2019.