Ali Cemal Darmar is a Turkish

Turkey

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 pianist

Pianist

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 and composer

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. He had studied piano

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 with Verda Un, Ferdi Statzer and Popi Mihailides in his early years. He has a degree

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 in Pharmacy

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In 1974 he moved to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

 and Annette Dieudonne privately when he was also a registered student

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 in Alfred Cortot

Alfred Cortot

Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians, especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.-Early life and education:Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the...

's Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris

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 - where he had studied with Germaine Mounier. Darmar had scholarships from UNESCO

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 (1976) and the French government (1981). He graduated from the composition

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 department of The Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory

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, under the direction of Tony Aubin, then got another degree on composition

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 from Jacques Castérède

Jacques Castérède

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's class in the Ecole Normale De Musique.

His work is clearly a gathering of the previous Turkish composers and the Neo-Romanticist movement

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 in the late 20th century France

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His compositions include Sumela and Metamorfoz

Metamorfoz

Metamorfoz is the renowned Turkish pop singer Tarkan's sixth Turkish language and seventh studio album, which was released on 25 December 2007 in Turkey....

, for Orchestra

Orchestra

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 Metroda, Ballet preludes for piano, a sonata, dance for two pianos, Katibim, fantasy songs for choir and leads.

Recently Anjelika Akbar

Anjelika Akbar

Anjelika Akbar is a Turkish pianist. She was born Anjelika Rosenbaum 1969 - Karaganda, Kazakhstan) to a family of a Jewish musician-philosopher father and an Uzbek musician mother. She could play the piano and read music at the age of 2,5 . Akbar began taking private piano lessons when she became 3...

, a concert pianist and a composer, performed at the Erzurum 2011 Winter Universiade preparations' gathering in Erzurum

Erzurum

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 and her repertoire

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 consisted of one of Darmar's compositions, along with the works of John Sebastian Bach, Ulvi Cemal Erkin

Ulvi Cemal Erkin

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 and Ilhan Baran.

Darmar works with Anjelika Akbar since 2003.
He now resides in Istanbul

Istanbul

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and continues to teach piano.

External links

• Turkish Music Portal