Timuçin Şahin (born 3 February 1973) is a Turkish
jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarists are guitarists who play jazz using an approach to chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines that is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist (rhythm guitar) and soloist in small and large ens ...
and composer. He was awarded first prize at the Dutch Jazz Competition in 2001 and second prizes at the Jur Naessens Music Award in 2002, and the Deloitte Jazz Award in 2006. He has so far released five
contemporary jazz albums, including solo releases, as part of the contemporary jazz trio ''On the Line'', and as part of the Timucin Sahin Quartet and the Timucin Sahin Quintet.
Career
Şahin started playing guitar when he was 16 years old. In 1992 he began studying jazz guitar with
Joe Pass
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and
John Abercombie at Hilversum Conservatory in
Rotterdam
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, Holland. He went on to study classical composition with
Daan Manneke at the
Amsterdam Conservatory
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, and with and
George Crumb
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at the
Manhattan School of Music
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in New York.
He has played and recorded with
Randy Brecker
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Early life
Brecker was ...
,
Greg Osby
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Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Osby studied at Howard University, then at the Berklee College of Music. He moved to New York City in 1982, where he played with Jak ...
,
Robin Eubanks
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,
Kai Eckhardt
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,
Mike Mainieri
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Biography
Mainieri was born in The Bronx, N ...
,
Mark Turner,
Tony Moreno,
Ernst Reizeger,
Armando Gola,
Donny McCaslin
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,
Tyshawn Sorey
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Sorey has received accolades for performances, recordings, and compositions ranging from improvised solo percussion to opera, ...
,
Thomas Morgan,
Sean Rickman,
Marcel Wierckx and
Owen Hart Jr.[
He has developed his own double necked guitar, on which he combines Indian scales and African rhythms with Western jazz improvisation. Currently, Şahin is a PhD candidate in composition at ]New York University
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.
Awards and recognition
*2001: first prize, Dutch Jazz Competition, On the Line
*2002: second prize for his composition ''Occult'' at the Jur Naessens Music Award
*2006: second prize in the Deloitte Jazz Award, performing with the Concertgebouw Concertgebouw may refer to one of the following concert halls:
* Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Concertgebouw, Bruges, Belgium
* Concertgebouw de Vereeniging, Netherlands
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Jazz Orchestra, Amsterdam
Discography
*On the Line: ''The Unexpected'', 2001
*''Slick Road'' (with Robin Eubanks
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, Hein van de Geyn, Afra Mussawisade and B.C. Manjunath), 2003
*''Window for my breath'' (with Kai Eckhardt
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and Owen Hart Jr.), 2005
*Amsterdam, de Wereld (KLR014): ''Elif'e Mektuplar'' 'soprano, bass clarinet, violoncello
*''Bafa'' (with John O'Gallagher, Tyshawn Sorey
Tyshawn Sorey (born July 8, 1980) is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and professor of contemporary music.
Sorey has received accolades for performances, recordings, and compositions ranging from improvised solo percussion to opera, ...
, and Thomas Morgan), 2009
*''Inherence'' (with John O'Gallagher, Tyshawn Sorey
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Sorey has received accolades for performances, recordings, and compositions ranging from improvised solo percussion to opera, ...
, Christopher Tordini, and Ralph Alessi
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), 2013
References
External links
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Turkish jazz musicians
Jazz guitarists
Living people
1973 births
21st-century Turkish guitarists