Kudsi ERGÜNER
He is considered a master of traditional Mevlevi Sufi music and is one of the best-known players of the Turkish ney flute. He was born in Diyarbakır, Turkey in 1952. He started his musical career in Istanbul Radio in 1969. For several decades, he has researched the earliest roots of Ottoman music which he has also taught, performed and recorded.
In the seventies Kudsi Erguner moved to Paris and at the beginning of the eighties, he founded the Mevlana Institute and has started to teach classical Sufi music. Together with the Kudsi Erguner Ensemble he developed deep insights into the diversity of his culture: the group conveys both authentic, often improvised forms of expression of classical Ottoman performance culture as well as a comprehensive repertoire of modern and classical pieces that can be traced back to the 13th century. In addition to his own recordings, Erguner has performed with world-renowned musicians.
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