Klarinet Archive - Posting 000451.txt from 2003/05
From: Peter Jaques <clarinet@-----.com> Subj: Re: [kl] Turkish bass clarinetist Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 07:50:09 -0400
Clark, the website you listed for Oguz Büyükberber doesn't work. Could you
double check it please? I'd really like to know more about him & couldn't
find much on google.
thanks,
peter jaques, oakland
www.huzzam.com
On 18 May 03, 4:20AM, Clark Fobes wrote:
> I have a good friend named Laura Carmichael who lived in San Francisco
> for about eight years and moved to Amsterdam 3 years ago to study bass
> clarinet with Harry Sparnaay. SHe is establishing herself as a new
> music/bass clarinet specialist and is developing a good career. She
> happened to be giving a recital of new music at the Klene Zaal at the
> Concertgebouw during the time I was in Amsterdam. I heard the recital
> (very interesting music and a terrific performance) and subsequently we
> went out to lucnh with her husband Robert and her friend Oguz Buyukberber
> and his wife Ilknur.
>
> Oguz has a website buyukberber.com go there and check out his music.
>
> He says he may be the only bass clarinetist in Turkey that owns an
> instrument! He played some cuts for me at his apartment of some of his
> own writing. Oguz (roughly pronounced ose ) was born with a seeing
> disorder that allows him very limited vision so he cannot read music.
> Therefore he writes and performs his own music. In particular he write
> electronic music that he improvises to. The cut he played for me was of
> him playing a duet with another Turkish player playing "G" clarinet.
> Unbelievable. Oguz plays the traditional Turkish style and blends it with
> jazz to make a very interesting palate of colours and ideas.
Peter Jaques ~ clarinetist &c ~ www.huzzam.com
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