Timur Selçuk

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A vinyl record cover from 1972
A vinyl record cover from 1972

Timur Selçuk (born 2 July 1946, Istanbul) is a renowned Turkish pop music singer, pianist, conductor and composer.

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[edit] Biography

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 repeatedly stormed 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 Nazım Hikmet.

He twice participated in the Eurovision Song Contest; in 1975, he conducted the first ever Turkish entry, "Seninle Bir Dakika", that had been composed and arranged by others. Fourteen years later, in 1989, he returned as composer, lyricist, arranger and conductor for "Bana Bana", that was performed by the group Pan. One of the singers of the group was his daughter. The song finished 21st., in spite of Selçuk's spectacular way of conducting the Swiss orchestra.

[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

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Awards
Preceded by
Vladimir Cosma		 Golden Boll Award
for Best Music Score
1994
for Mavi Sürgün		 Succeeded by
not awarded
Preceded by
Mazlum Çimen		 Golden Orange Award
for Best Music Score
2003
for Abdülhamit Düşerken		 Succeeded by
Erkan Oğur
v • d • e
Golden Orange Award for Best Music Score
Nedim Otyam (1965) · Nedim Otyam (1966) · Yılmaz Duru (1974) · Atilla Özdemiroğlu-Şanar Yurdatapan (1975) · Melih Kibar (1976) · Cahit Berkay (1978) · Nedim Otyam (1981) · Cahit Berkay (1982) · Yeni Türkü Topluluğu (1983) · Yalçın Tura (1984) · Tarık Öcal (1985) · Atilla Özdemiroğlu (1986) · Atilla Özdemiroğlu (1987) · Selim Atakan (1989) · Atilla Özdemiroğlu (1990) · Cahit Berkay (1991) · Münir Nurettin Beken (1992) · Can Hakgüder (1993) · Serdar Kalafatoğlu (1994) · Mazlum Çimen (1995) · Yalçın Tura (1996) · Pivio-Aldo D. Scaltzi (1997) · Uğur Dikmen (1998) · Tamer Çıray (1999) · Cahit Berkay (2000) · Kardeş Türküler (2001) · Mazlum Çimen (2002) · Timur Selçuk (2003) · Erkan Oğur (2004) · Tamer Çıray (2005) · Gökçe Akçelik (2006) · Zülfü Livaneli (2007)


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NAME Selçuk, Timur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Turkish musician
DATE OF BIRTH 2 July 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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