Kudsi Erguner

Kudsi Erguner, (born 1952) is a Turkish musician. He is considered a master of traditional Mevlevi Sufi and is one of the best-known players of the Turkish ney flute.

Biography

He was born in Diyarbakır, Turkey in 1952. As a boy, Kudsi and his father Ulvi Erguner performed hypnotic and spiritual dance rituals from the Mevlevi-Sufi tradition at Dervish ceremonies. He started his musical career in Istanbul Radio in 1969. For several decades, he has researched the earliest roots of Ottoman music which he has also taught, performed and recorded.

In the seventies Kudsi Erguner moved to Paris where, at the beginning of the eighties, he founded the Mevlana Institute devoted to the study and teaching of classical Sufi music. Together with the Kudsi Erguner Ensemble he developed deep insights into the diversity of his culture: the group conveys both authentic, often improvised forms of expression of classical Ottoman performance culture as well as a comprehensive repertoire of modern and classical pieces that can be traced back to the 13th century.

In addition to his own recordings, Erguner has performed with Peter Gabriel, Jean Michel Jarre, Maurice Béjart, Peter Brook, George Aperghis, Didier Lockwood, Italian singer-songwriter Alice and Michel Portal.

Discography

* "Meditation on the Ney"
* Turkey: "Art of the Ottoman Tanbur", 1989
* "Sufi Music of Turkey", with Suleyman Erguner, Mahmoud Tabrizi Zadeh, Bruno Caillat, 1990
* "The Turkish Ney", with Salih Dede, Suleyman Erguner, 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", 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 Erguner, Necip Gulses, Dogan Hosses, Sükrü Kabaci, Baki Kemanci, 1996
* "Vocal Masterpieces of Kemani Tatyos Efendi", with Husnu Anil, Suleyman Erguner, 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 Turkan, 1997
* "Music from the Arabian Nights", with Bruno Caillat, Tabrizi Mahmoud Zadeh, 1999
* "Ottomania", 1999
* "Islam Blues", with Bruno Caillat, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Nguyên Lê, Derya Turkan, Mark Nausesf, Yunus Balcioglu, Halil Neciboglu,2001
* "Taj Mahal", with Bruno Caillat, Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Derya Turkan, Ken Zukerman, 2001
* "Gazing Point", with Markus Stockhausen & Mark Nauseef, 2003

References

* İletişim Publications - [http://www.iletisim.com.tr/iletisim/person.aspx?pid=858 "Biography of Kudsi Ergüner"] tr icon

External links

* NTV News Online - [http://www.ntvmsnbc.com.tr/news/100900.asp "News on Kudsi Ergüner"] tr icon