EMre Aracı

Emre Aracı is one of Turkey's leading younger generation of musicologists. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, he completed a doctorate on the life and works of the seminal 20th century Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun. He is founder director of the Londra Osmanlı Saray Müziği Akademisi (London Academy of Ottoman Court Music Ensemble), a specialist group performing European music composed in Ottoman Turkey. As a composer, his works include Elegy for Erkel (1993), Farewell to Haluk (1994), Marche funèbre et triomphale (1995), a violin concerto (1997) premiered in London in November 1999, The Turkish Ambassador's Grand March (1998), and In Search of Lost Time (2002), a privately commissioned symphonic poem to mark the Golden Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.