Marc Sinan

Year 2013

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Marc Sinan is a composer and guitarist. In his work he tries out new forms of collaboration between artists in a transcultural and transmedia context. He usually works as composer, artistic director, guitarist, and producer with his own ensemble, the Marc Sinan Company, and with changing international guests and institutional partners such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Dresden Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble ConTempo Beijing, Belgrade Ensemble Metamorphosis, Sonar Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, and the media collective Schnellebuntebilder. Recordings of his works have been released by ECM Records. His mainly full-length works, which take up current socio-political issues, are performed internationally and have been guests at festivals such as the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, Istanbul Festival, and MaerzMusik, and at venues such as the Halle Opera, Wuppertal Opera, Bremen Theater, Humboldt-Forum Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, and Wiener Konzerthaus. He lives and works in Berlin.

Marc Sinan was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from September 2012 to January 2013.

Year 2013

Discipline Music

Marc Sinan is a composer and guitarist. In his work he tries out new forms of collaboration between artists in a transcultural and transmedia context. He usually works as composer, artistic director, guitarist, and producer with his own ensemble, the Marc Sinan Company, and with changing international guests and institutional partners such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Dresden Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble ConTempo Beijing, Belgrade Ensemble Metamorphosis, Sonar Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, and the media collective Schnellebuntebilder. Recordings of his works have been released by ECM Records. His mainly full-length works, which take up current socio-political issues, are performed internationally and have been guests at festivals such as the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, Istanbul Festival, and MaerzMusik, and at venues such as the Halle Opera, Wuppertal Opera, Bremen Theater, Humboldt-Forum Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, and Wiener Konzerthaus. He lives and works in Berlin.

Marc Sinan was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from September 2012 to January 2013.

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Mark Andre

Year 2016

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Mark Andre studied composition, counterpoint, harmony, and musical analysis at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris (CNSMP) and composition at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. Among his teachers were Claude Ballif, Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann. He has been a resident at Villa Medici in Rome (1998–2000) and Fellow of the Berlin Artists’ Program of the DAAD (2005). In 2008 he received the Advancement Award of the Berlin Art Award of the Academy of the Arts. In 2009 the first complete performance of his tryptich …auf…took place in Berlin, and he became a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and professor of composition at the Dresden University of Music; in 2010 he was composer-in-residence and lecturer at the 21st Takefu International Music Festival; in 2011 he was awarded the Order Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture; in 2014 the world premiere of his opera wunderzaichen took place in Stuttgart; and in 2017 he was a lecturer at Impuls in Graz. He lives in Berlin.

Mark Andre was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from July 2015 to February 2016.

Year 2016

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Mark Andre studied composition, counterpoint, harmony, and musical analysis at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris (CNSMP) and composition at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. Among his teachers were Claude Ballif, Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann. He has been a resident at Villa Medici in Rome (1998–2000) and Fellow of the Berlin Artists’ Program of the DAAD (2005). In 2008 he received the Advancement Award of the Berlin Art Award of the Academy of the Arts. In 2009 the first complete performance of his tryptich …auf…took place in Berlin, and he became a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and professor of composition at the Dresden University of Music; in 2010 he was composer-in-residence and lecturer at the 21st Takefu International Music Festival; in 2011 he was awarded the Order Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture; in 2014 the world premiere of his opera wunderzaichen took place in Stuttgart; and in 2017 he was a lecturer at Impuls in Graz. He lives in Berlin.

Mark Andre was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from July 2015 to February 2016.

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Sinem Altan

Year 2016

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Sinem Altan, born in 1985 in Ankara, studied composition at the University of the Arts, Berlin, and composition at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy. Her more extensive works include Hafriyat-Earthwork for orchestra, for which she won the European Composer Prize 2015, the Concerto for Bağlama and Orchestra, commissioned by the Landesmusikrat Berlin 2013, and the city opera Die Gute Stadt (The Good City) for the Freiburg Theater. Her fairy tale concerto Keloğlan und die Räuberbande (Keloğlan and the Band of Robbers), commissioned by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, received the Young Ears Special Prize 2011. She currently works as artistic director at the Atze Musiktheater Berlin and is the musical director of the Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin. Her current performances and projects as a pianist and conductor, also with her renowned Ensemble Olivinn, include the recomposition project for Beethoven’s Pastorale at the main broadcasting hall of the RBB Aşkım Beethoven, meine Liebe (Aşkım Beethoven, My Love), commissions for new compositions at the Young Euro Classic at Konzerthaus Berlin, a series of concerts in Cemal-Reşit-Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, and concert events for the German Federal President at Bellevue Palace.

Sinem Altan was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from July to December 2016.

Year 2016

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Sinem Altan, born in 1985 in Ankara, studied composition at the University of the Arts, Berlin, and composition at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy. Her more extensive works include Hafriyat-Earthwork for orchestra, for which she won the European Composer Prize 2015, the Concerto for Bağlama and Orchestra, commissioned by the Landesmusikrat Berlin 2013, and the city opera Die Gute Stadt (The Good City) for the Freiburg Theater. Her fairy tale concerto Keloğlan und die Räuberbande (Keloğlan and the Band of Robbers), commissioned by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, received the Young Ears Special Prize 2011. She currently works as artistic director at the Atze Musiktheater Berlin and is the musical director of the Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin. Her current performances and projects as a pianist and conductor, also with her renowned Ensemble Olivinn, include the recomposition project for Beethoven’s Pastorale at the main broadcasting hall of the RBB Aşkım Beethoven, meine Liebe (Aşkım Beethoven, My Love), commissions for new compositions at the Young Euro Classic at Konzerthaus Berlin, a series of concerts in Cemal-Reşit-Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, and concert events for the German Federal President at Bellevue Palace.

Sinem Altan was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from July to December 2016.

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Michael Schiefel

Year 2017

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Michael Schiefel studied jazz singing and composition at the University of the Arts in Berlin and has been giving concerts since the early 1990s. During his studies, the singer already began to experiment with the expressive possibilities of loop devices and other forms of electronics. Since then, he has been touring all over the world with his solo vocal programs, including as a guest of the Goethe-Institut. He also works in many bands – for example, in a duo with David Friedman, his own Istanbul Quartet, the Platypus Trio, the Wood & Steel Trio, and in Thärichens Tentett. He has given concerts at festivals around the world, including the North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Jarasum Jazz Festival (Korea), JZ Festival (China), Earshot Jazz Festival (USA), Mediawave Festival (Hungary), Eunics Festival (Chile), and Jazzfest Berlin. Since 2001 he has been professor for jazz singing at the Franz Lizst University of Music in Weimar. In 2013 he won the Echo Jazz Prize as Singer of the Year (national). Most recently he released No Half Measures with Thärichens Tentett (Laika Records 2019) and Hollywood Songbook with the Wood & Steel Trio (Traumton 2018).

Michael Schiefel was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to November 2017.

Year 2017

Discipline Music

Michael Schiefel studied jazz singing and composition at the University of the Arts in Berlin and has been giving concerts since the early 1990s. During his studies, the singer already began to experiment with the expressive possibilities of loop devices and other forms of electronics. Since then, he has been touring all over the world with his solo vocal programs, including as a guest of the Goethe-Institut. He also works in many bands – for example, in a duo with David Friedman, his own Istanbul Quartet, the Platypus Trio, the Wood & Steel Trio, and in Thärichens Tentett. He has given concerts at festivals around the world, including the North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Jarasum Jazz Festival (Korea), JZ Festival (China), Earshot Jazz Festival (USA), Mediawave Festival (Hungary), Eunics Festival (Chile), and Jazzfest Berlin. Since 2001 he has been professor for jazz singing at the Franz Lizst University of Music in Weimar. In 2013 he won the Echo Jazz Prize as Singer of the Year (national). Most recently he released No Half Measures with Thärichens Tentett (Laika Records 2019) and Hollywood Songbook with the Wood & Steel Trio (Traumton 2018).

Michael Schiefel was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to November 2017.

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Ketan Bhatti

Year 2017

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Ketan Bhatti, born in 1981, is a composer and percussionist who crosses the boundaries between different genres and cultural worlds. His works range from contemporary chamber music to experimental music and dance theater, stage and film music to electronic, hip-hop-based productions. Since 2003 he has been composing regularly with his brother Vivan Bhatti for productions by the director Nuran David Çalış and others at Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Cologne Schauspiel. Ketan and Vivan Bhatti’s music theater pieces are based on collaborations with authors such as Feridun Zaimoğlu and Roland Schimmelpfennig, ask questions about integration and exclusion, and have been premiered and performed at various venues, including the Neu Kölln Opera, the Tischlerei – Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Hanover State Opera. Since 2009 the brothers have also been composing and producing the music for the shows of the Berlin urban dance company Flying Steps. For the concert Klanggestalten featuring Simon Stockhausen, Bhatti was awarded the Karl Hofer Prize 2008. With Cymin Samawatie, he founded the Trickster Orchestra in 2013 as a chamber orchestra for contemporary, trans-traditional soundscapes and experimental methods of development.

Ketan Bhatti was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from January to June 2017.

Year 2017

Discipline Music

Ketan Bhatti, born in 1981, is a composer and percussionist who crosses the boundaries between different genres and cultural worlds. His works range from contemporary chamber music to experimental music and dance theater, stage and film music to electronic, hip-hop-based productions. Since 2003 he has been composing regularly with his brother Vivan Bhatti for productions by the director Nuran David Çalış and others at Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Cologne Schauspiel. Ketan and Vivan Bhatti’s music theater pieces are based on collaborations with authors such as Feridun Zaimoğlu and Roland Schimmelpfennig, ask questions about integration and exclusion, and have been premiered and performed at various venues, including the Neu Kölln Opera, the Tischlerei – Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Hanover State Opera. Since 2009 the brothers have also been composing and producing the music for the shows of the Berlin urban dance company Flying Steps. For the concert Klanggestalten featuring Simon Stockhausen, Bhatti was awarded the Karl Hofer Prize 2008. With Cymin Samawatie, he founded the Trickster Orchestra in 2013 as a chamber orchestra for contemporary, trans-traditional soundscapes and experimental methods of development.

Ketan Bhatti was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from January to June 2017.

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Jacobien Vlasman

Year 2018

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Jacobien Vlasman, born in 1969 in Amsterdam, grew up in Germany and has lived in Berlin since 1993, where she first completed a master’s degree in humanities (German, romance studies, and philosophy) in 1998 and then turned her real passion, music, into a profession. From 2014 she studied in the European Jazz Master (EUJAM) program, which took her from Berlin to Trondheim, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Paris, and from which she graduated in 2016 with the grade of “very good.” In her almost 25-year career as a musician, she has performed in clubs and at festivals in various European countries and has worked with many well-known colleagues, including Angelika Niescier, Julia Hülsmann, Christian Thomé, Achim Kaufmann, Phil Donkin, Christian Kögel, Kalle Kalima, and Moritz Baumgärtner. She has received various grants and project sponsorships, including from the Berlin Senate Administration for Culture and Europe, the Music Fund and German Orchestra Foundation. Since 2020, Vlasman has been organizing the rejazz festival, which she initiated, and she is the artistic director of the “Inside …” series at the Zig Zag Jazz Club in Berlin.

Jacobien Vlasman was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from December 2017 to February 2018 and August 2018.

Year 2018

Discipline Music

Jacobien Vlasman, born in 1969 in Amsterdam, grew up in Germany and has lived in Berlin since 1993, where she first completed a master’s degree in humanities (German, romance studies, and philosophy) in 1998 and then turned her real passion, music, into a profession. From 2014 she studied in the European Jazz Master (EUJAM) program, which took her from Berlin to Trondheim, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Paris, and from which she graduated in 2016 with the grade of “very good.” In her almost 25-year career as a musician, she has performed in clubs and at festivals in various European countries and has worked with many well-known colleagues, including Angelika Niescier, Julia Hülsmann, Christian Thomé, Achim Kaufmann, Phil Donkin, Christian Kögel, Kalle Kalima, and Moritz Baumgärtner. She has received various grants and project sponsorships, including from the Berlin Senate Administration for Culture and Europe, the Music Fund and German Orchestra Foundation. Since 2020, Vlasman has been organizing the rejazz festival, which she initiated, and she is the artistic director of the “Inside …” series at the Zig Zag Jazz Club in Berlin.

Jacobien Vlasman was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from December 2017 to February 2018 and August 2018.

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Christian Thomé

Year 2018

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Christian Thomé, born in 1970 in Düsseldorf, lives in Cologne and works as a drummer, composer, music arranger, producer, and teacher. His projects range from contemporary jazz and freely improvised music to world music, experimental electronics, pop music, and classical music. He is currently working on “abstract.club”, a concert series for experimental club music, and with the Tarabya Ensemble and the Duo Vesna with the Ukrainian singer Mariana Sadovska. He is also a permanent member of Hans Lüdemann’s Trio Ivoire and the Markus Stockhausen Group. The focus of his work is the constant further development of unconventional, multi-faceted and timbre-rich drumming. Thomé works as a lecturer for jazz drums, jazz ensembles, and specialist didactics at the Institute for Music at the University of Osnabrück.

Christian Thomé was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from July to December 2016 and from February to March 2018.

Year 2018

Discipline Music

Christian Thomé, born in 1970 in Düsseldorf, lives in Cologne and works as a drummer, composer, music arranger, producer, and teacher. His projects range from contemporary jazz and freely improvised music to world music, experimental electronics, pop music, and classical music. He is currently working on “abstract.club”, a concert series for experimental club music, and with the Tarabya Ensemble and the Duo Vesna with the Ukrainian singer Mariana Sadovska. He is also a permanent member of Hans Lüdemann’s Trio Ivoire and the Markus Stockhausen Group. The focus of his work is the constant further development of unconventional, multi-faceted and timbre-rich drumming. Thomé works as a lecturer for jazz drums, jazz ensembles, and specialist didactics at the Institute for Music at the University of Osnabrück.

Christian Thomé was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from July to December 2016 and from February to March 2018.

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Ignaz Schick

Year 2018

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Ignaz Schick is a sound artist, turntablist, composer, and visual artist. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, he worked in Berlin, where he became an important part of the young real-time music scene. Based on live electronics he developed an independent electro-acoustic set-up, the “Rotating Surfaces”. Since 2012 he has focussed on realizing concept compositions and experimental radio pieces. Schick works as a festival curator for experimental music and runs the experimental music label Zarek. He tours worldwide, solo and with groups like Perlonex, Splitter Orchester and ILOG, has released numerous albums and worked with internationally renowned artists such as Mwata Bowden, Don Cherry, Sven-Ake Johansson, Charlemagne Palestine, and Martin Tetréault. His numerous residencies include the Composition Residency of the Berlin Senate/Cité des Arts Paris (2016), Global Cultural Exchange Residency for Southeast Asia (Malaysia/Laos/Indonesia/Vietnam, 2017), and Villa Aurora Residency in Los Angeles (2017). In 2020 he received the Work and Research Residency for Composition/Sound Art in Berlin.

Ignaz Schick was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from September to December 2018.

Year 2018

Discipline Music

Ignaz Schick is a sound artist, turntablist, composer, and visual artist. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, he worked in Berlin, where he became an important part of the young real-time music scene. Based on live electronics he developed an independent electro-acoustic set-up, the “Rotating Surfaces”. Since 2012 he has focussed on realizing concept compositions and experimental radio pieces. Schick works as a festival curator for experimental music and runs the experimental music label Zarek. He tours worldwide, solo and with groups like Perlonex, Splitter Orchester and ILOG, has released numerous albums and worked with internationally renowned artists such as Mwata Bowden, Don Cherry, Sven-Ake Johansson, Charlemagne Palestine, and Martin Tetréault. His numerous residencies include the Composition Residency of the Berlin Senate/Cité des Arts Paris (2016), Global Cultural Exchange Residency for Southeast Asia (Malaysia/Laos/Indonesia/Vietnam, 2017), and Villa Aurora Residency in Los Angeles (2017). In 2020 he received the Work and Research Residency for Composition/Sound Art in Berlin.

Ignaz Schick was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from September to December 2018.

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Discipline: Music

Stellan Veloce

Ignaz Schick - Istanbul Diaries I Durational concert installation

Marc Sinan

Mark Andre

Sinem Altan

Michael Schiefel

Ketan Bhatti

Jacobien Vlasman

Christian Thomé

Ignaz Schick