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 Londo…
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