Ayhan Işık | pl

Kayhan Kalhor (ur. 1963) - największy na świecie wirtuoz perskiego tradycyjnego instrumentu smyczkowego - kamancze. Zaczynał karierę w młodym wieku, już mając lat 13 uczestniczył w pracach Irańskiej Narodowej Orkiestry Radiowo-Telewizyjnej. Jako dojrzały artysta promuje na świecie tradycyjną muzykę perską i kurdyjską a także współpracuje z muzykami wielu kultur - do grona jego muzycznych współpracowników zaliczają się m.in. amerykański kwartet smyczkowy Brooklyn Rider, Erdal Erzincan z Turcji czy Shujaat Husain Khan i Swapan Chaudhuri z Indii. .

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...