Timur Selçuk

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A vinyl record cover from 1972

Timur Selçuk (born 2 July 1946, Istanbul) is a renowned Turkish pop music singer, pianist, conductor and composer. He is the son of well-known composer of Turkish neo-classical music, Münir Nurettin Selçuk. He started playing piano at the age of five and gave his first concert at seven. He was educated in Galatasaray Lisesi and Istanbul Municipality Conservatory.

Selçuk returned home after his study at the "Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris" and became a pioneer of the political composers in Turkey. With his chansons, he stormed repeatedly the hit lists. He is the founder and the conductor of the Istanbul Chamber Orchestra. He composed a great number of music to films and theater works, and also to the poems of Nazim Hikmet.

[edit] Selected discography

Timur Selçuk /3, Balet Plak, 1987
İspanyol Meyhanesi, Balet Plak, 1988
Bir Uzay Masalı Pop Opera, Balet Plak, 1991
25. Yıl, Balet Plak, 1992
Seçkiler, Ada Müzik, 2000
Istanbul Oda Orkestrası, Balet Plak
Babamın Şarkıları, Balet Plak, 2003
Abdülhamit Düşerken, Balet Plak, 2004
Bedreddin / Timur Selçuk Tiyatro Müzikleri, Balet Plak, 2005

[edit] Filmography

Eine Saison in Hakkari, (Turkey/Germany), 1982/1983 directed by Erden Kıral
Vatanyolu (Die Heimreise), (Germany), 1987/1988 by Enis Günay, Rasim Konyar
Mavi Sürgün (Das blaue Exil), (Turkey/Germany/Greece), 1992/1993 by Erden Kıral