Ayhan Işık | ar

Kayhan Kalhor (Persian: كيهان كلهر), born 1963, is an Iranian kamancheh player of Kurdish descent. Kayhan Kalhor was born in Tehran, Iran. He began studying music at seven years of age. By age thirteen he was playing in the National Orchestra of Radio and Television of Iran. Continuing his music studies under various teachers, he studied in the Persian radif tradition and also travelled to study in the northern part of Khorasan province, where music traditions have Kurdish and Turkic influences as well as Persian. At a musical conservatory in Tehran around age 20 Kalhor worked under the directorship of...

Born in 1964 in Istanbul, Uğur Işık graduated from Istanbul Technical University, State Conservatory of Classical Turkish Music in 1985. Upon passing the Graduated Strings Instrumentalist Examination administered by the State Radio, he started performing at the Radio of Istanbul as cellist. In 1992 he joined the group Bosphorus, who played Classical Turkish Music. Anadolu Feneri, Sarband, Sultan’s Minstrels and İncesaz are among the groups with whom he travelled many times around the globe and performed, contributing his cello as well as lute and bass kemençe. His music is constantly in demand for CD compilations and film and documentary soundtracks,...

He was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1929. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1953. He started to work as a painter and a graphic designer. In 1951 he took part in a competition and came together on screen with Belgin Doruk, a leading lady of the Turkish cinema of the time, which launched a film career which would last for over two decades. He acted in more than 200 movies. He also released two records titled "Doğdum Çile Çekmek İçin" (Born to Suffer) & "Gönül Belası" (Misfortune of Love). He died of a brain haemorrhage in...