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MURAT COSKUN
(Percussionist, author, composer) The internationally renowned percussionist, Murat Coskun, won the SWR World Music Prize in 1998 and was recognized with the ZMF Prize in 2004.
He gives concerts worldwide with his solo program, "Finger Dance," and with international musicians and ensembles such as the Giora Feidmann Sextet, with Kudsi Erguner, the ensemble, early music freiburg, and the ensemble, FisFüz, at numerous concerts and festivals including in Mongolia, the United States, Africa, the Near East and Western and Eastern Europe. Based on his study of music ethnology and his Oriental studies, he serves as an intermediary between the musical worlds of the Orient and the West, draws from a large music repertoire of the most varied of cultures and deals with many directions of style such as jazz, world music, old music, classics and experimental percussion. Numerous CD recordings and radio productions such as with the SWR and Deutschland Radio and TV productions such as for ZDF, ARTE, BR and SWR provide an extension of his artistic career. In addition, he also composes film and stage music such as for BR, Theater Luxembourg and Theater Lucerne. Murat Coskun works as a guest lecturer for Oriental percussion and frame drums including for the Freiburg Music University and gives international master classes including in Turkey and Iran. As an author and teacher, he developed the first worldwide frame drum instructional DVD, Finger Dance, and as an endorser of the company, Schlagwerk, he is participating in the development of new frame drums. Murat Coskun is the founder and director of the international frame drum festival, Tamburi Mundi which he organized in Freiburg and Iran. Projects:
Giora Feidman ensemble FisFüz (oriental Jazz) Tamburo Mundi (International Frame Drum Ensemble) Voice´n´Rhythm-Project (with Glen Velez und Lori Cotler) Ensemble Misafir (trad. turkish Music) Spielleyt Freiburg (Ensemble für Frühe Musik) A Chantar (Ensemble für Frühe Musik)
TC-Percussion-Duo (mit Olaf Tzschoppe)
Rhythmystic Silence (Percussion-Solo)
Freiburger Barock Orchester, Les Haulz et les Bas (Ensemble für Alte Musik), Freiburger Percussionensembel, Kudsi Erguner, Quartetto con Affetto (Blockflötenquartett), Bettina Castano (Flamenco), Cécil Verny Quartett (Jazz), Rüdiger Oppermann, Estampie (Ensemble für Alte Musik), Schäl Sick Brass Band, El-Houssaine Kili (Marokkanischer Gnawa-Pop), BAP, Landes Jugendorchester u.a. |