Oğuz Büyükberber
Turkish born clarinetist, improviser/composer Oğuz Büyükberber's work stands on the crossroads of contemporary composition, improvisation, Turkish music, and jazz. He studied bass clarinet with Harry Sparnaay, and audited Theo Loevendie’s composition classes at Amsterdam Conservatory. He has performed in major festivals all over Europe such as North Sea, Traumzeit, Akbank and London Jazz Festivals, recorded over 50 CD’s including 13 of his own projects and collaborated with Butch Morris, Craig Harris, John Zorn, Gerry Hemingway, Simon Nabatov, Jim Black, Nils Wogram, Claudio Puntin, Armand Angster and Hüsnü Şenlendirici to name a few. Now living in Amsterdam Oğuz Büyükberber collaborates with a pool of international musicians and composes a wide range of music both for his own projects and other commissions. Also holding another dgree in fine arts, he incorporates his own visual art into musical performances and finds new ways to use live-electronics. In 2012 he was a given a Carte Blanche from the Bimhuis in Amsterdam; in 2011 he was named a Selmer Artist.
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