Ahmet KAYA | fr

Artiste dissident, combattant de la liberté et défenseur de la cause kurde. Ahmet Kaya était l’un des musiciens les plus populaires de Turquie. Il compose un peu à la manière de Renaud, du chilien Victor Jara ou de Joan Baez, des chansons s’adressant non seulement au cœur mais aussi à l’intelligence des gens, parlant de leur vie réelle, pas seulement de leurs fantasmes, de leurs problèmes, de leurs aspirations, de leurs révoltes contre un système qui les broie et les marginalise. .

Mısırlı Ahmet ( Ahmet Yıldırım born, 1963 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish virtuoso darbuka player. His music spans various genres and carries influences from Indian, Arabic, Latin American and jazz music. Ahmet Yıldırım started his music life playing a Turkish-style darbuka. He states that he was a fairly ordinary player before his travel to Egypt, to play with and learn from some of the best darbuka players; most of all "to find the meaning of his existence" and "to discover the rhythm". Yıldırım lived in the desert-bound valley of Cairo, during which he developed his unique technique, now known...

Ahmet Kanneci was born in Türkiye, on June 21, 1957; he is a Turkish guitar virtuoso particularly on the Classic style. Currently, Kanneci is the chairman of the Department of Guitar, at Hacettepe University State Conservatory and actively teaching as well. Kanneci first met and instantly fell in love with guitar when he saw a live performance of Alirio Díaz whom he later worked with and mentioned among his teachers. He began his music studies with Turgay Erdener, İstemihan Taviloğlu and Ali Sevgi. Meeting Julian Byzantine, with whom he continued his music studies, in 1977, he turned his attention to...

Oxana Yablonskaya was born in Moscow. From ages six through sixteen, she attended The Moscow Central School for the Gifted under the tutelage of Anaida Sumbatyan (who also taught Vladimir Ashkenazy). Later she studied with Aleksandre Goldenweiser. Finally, at the age of 22, she began a professional relationship with Tatiana Nikolayeva, later acting as her assistant at the Moscow Conservatory. Following graduation she was introduced to the Western World by way of the Jaques Long-Thibaud Competition in 1963, the Rio de Janeiro Competition in 1965, and the Vienna Beethoven Competition in 1969. She won top prizes in all three competitions,...