Timur Selçuk

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

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Biography

He is a son of the legendary Turkish neo-classical music composer, Münir Nurettin Selçuk, and the elder brother of the jazz drummer and composer Selim Selçuk. He started playing piano at the age of five and gave his first concert at seven. He was educated in Galatasaray High School 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 Nâzım 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.

Selected discography

Filmography

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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
Nedim Otyam (1969) · Arif Erkin (1970) · Metin Bükey (1971) · Cahit Oben (1973) · Vladimir Cosma (1993) · Timur Selçuk (1994) · Mazlum Çimen (1995) · Can Hakgüder (1996) · Atilla Özdemiroğlu (1997) · Atilla Özdemiroğlu (2005) · Taner Onat – Serkan Sönmezocak (2006) · Rahman Altın (2007) · Mazlum Çimen (2008) · Nail Yurtsever (2009)

Nedim Otyam (1965) · Nedim Otyam (1966) · Yılmaz Duru (1974) · Atilla Özdemiroğlu-Şanar Yurdatapan (1975) · Melih Kibar (1976) · Cahit Berkay (1978) · Arif Erkin (1979) · Zülfü Livaneli (1980) · Nedim Otyam (1981) · Cahit Berkay (1982) · Yeni Türkü Topluluğu (1983) · Yalçın Tura (1984) · Tarık Öcal (1985) · Atilla Özdemiroğlu (1986) · Atilla Özdemiroğlu (1987) · Atilla Özdemiroğlu (1988) · 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) · Mazlum Çimen (2008) · Mehmet Erdem-Özgür Akgül (2009) · Mircan (2010)} · Frank Schreiber-Hemin Derya (2011)