Mehmet
NEMUTLU
(b.1966)
Nemutlu started his musical training at the age of seventeen with Muammer Sun and continued to study under N.K.Akses at the State Conservatory in Istanbul where his teachers included Ilhan Usmanbas in composition, Erçivan Saydam in fugue, Bülent Tarcan in counterpoint, the pianist Madlen Saydam and Nuri Iyicil in chamber music and graduated in advanced composition in 1993 when he was offered a scholarship by the Syracuse University in the USA for his further studies. However, he rejected the offer and remained in Turkey to complete his master's studies at the Conservatory in Istanbul.
In his early works he widely practised tonal harmony and 12-tone system. The musical elements he employs are a blend of varieties and do not follow a certain pattern but arise during the process of composing. Five ranges and Göre for seven instruments, Individual Pieces, Games of Paradox and Orchestral Pieces No.2 and No.3 are among his mature works.
Awards he has received in Turkey are; The first prize for his Child of Freedom for voice and piano in Izmir Composition Contest (1991); The first prize in the Turkish part of Young Composers in Leipzig organised by BP (1995).
Nemutlu's participation in the "European Young Artist" competition with two of his works has been a highly sensational news in Turkish press because he has been trained in the intellectual life of Turkey with its own means, having the acquintance with the western world of music in books, recordings and scores, so his output has always been assessed as successfull test on be half of Turkey. His appearance on the international music scene exemplifies Turkey's challenging efforts in this field. Nemutlu has absorbed the contemporary musical techniques of the west and undoubtedly his success greatly rets on the contributions of his teacher Prof. Ilhan Usmanbas, holder of four awards at international composition contests.
Nemutlu, who is currently teaching solfeggio at the Istanbul State Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University, has an essay called Mist on a prelude by Debussy and has translated the theory book of Otto Karoly, Introduction to Music.
WORKS:
1987-90 "Pastiches" (pieces for solo piano, voice-piano and clarinet-piano in the styles of Scriabin, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Schoenberg[his first period])
1989 Four Pieces (flute and piano)
1989 Pieces (flute and prepared piano)
1989-90 12-Tone Pieces (twelve pieces for various instruments-duets and trios)
1990 "Three Poems of Helmut" / Helmut Heissenbüttel (voice and piano)
1990 Five Sections (harp)
1990 "Analogies" (for two percussionists)
1990 "Child of Freedom " / Abdurrahman Genç (voice and piano)
1991 Processes (two violas and piano-four hands)
1991 Five Ranges and "According" for Septet (flute, oboe, bass clarinet, basson, xylophone, viola, double bass)
1991 "Yaza Sizila" / (Yaza Sızıla) Seyhan Ozcelik (for three speakers, string quartet and piano)
1991 "Four Plates and Two Strips" (piano)
1992 Orchestral Piece No. 1
1992 "Song of Autumn " / Federico Garcia Lorca (voice and six instruments) (composed originally for voice and piano in 1987)
1992 Orchestral Piece No. 2
1993 Independent Pieces for String Quartet
Quartet Op.132
Recitativo-I
Mosso
Recitativo-II
Pizzscherzandostinato
Chronic-Acute
1993 "Three Poems of E.O.F." / Ertugrul Oguz Firat (mixed chorus)
1994 Orchestral Piece No. 3
1994 "A Play of Antinomies" (piano)
1995 "Du Weiss" ("You White") / Eugen Gomringer (mixed chorus)
1996 "Güdük Gazel " (violin and piano)
1996 "Chamber Symphonies" (for large orchestra)
1997 "Mouvement " (chamber ensemble)
1998 "Musictheater" (for speaking and singing voices)
[on a play by Kerem Kurdoglu]
1999 "Bakis" (Bakış) (mixed chorus)
1999 "Inege Ovgu " (İneğe Övgü) (mixed chorus)
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