Mazlum Çimen

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Mazlum Çimen (June 18, 1958 in Elbistan, Kahramanmaraş) is a Turkish musician, ballet dancer, film actor, folk singer, and award-winning film score composer.

Early life

He was born in Sevdilli village of Elbistan in Kahramanmaraş Province on June 18, 1958.He is the son of Nesimi Cimen who is a great Ashik, songwriter and Cura Virtuoso in history. His parents are originating however from Hozat in Tunceli Province.^[1]^[2]

His family moved to Istanbul as he was still in pre-school age. After Mazlum finished his primary school education, he attended Istanbul State Conservatory to study violin. Four years later, he switched over to ballet dancing section of the same music school and graduated in 1981. He entered Istanbul State Opera and Ballet as a ballet dancer, where he is still employed.^[1]^[2]

Music career

Mazlum toured across the country with his father Nesimi Çimen,^[3] a well-known folk music singer, and was so introduced in music composing.^[2] He created his first compositions already in 1980. With his music teacher İhsan Yüce's initiation, he stepped into the film music field, where he found the strong support of Onat Kutlar, a poet and co-founder of the Istanbul International Film Festival.^[1]^[2]

His first commercial compositions were for the film Mem û Zin in 1991 and for the TV mini-series Aysarı'nın Zilleri in 1992. He was awarded three times the Golden Orange and twice the Golden Boll for best film score. In 2008, he received the Best Film Score Award for Nokta at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in France.^[1]^[2]

Beside composing film and TV mini-series score in addition to his primary profession as ballet dancer, Mazlum Çimen plays in movies, sings and records folk music.^[1]^[2]

Filmography

Film score

68'den 6 Mayıs'a
Nazım Hikmet Belgeseli
Mem û Zin (1991)
Gelincik Tarlası (1993)
Soğuk Geceler (1994)^[2] aka Kalte Nächte
Hollywood Kaçakları (1996)
Işıklar Sönmesin (1996)^[2]
Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk (2002)^[2] aka Hejar or Big Man, Little Love or Megali exousia, mikri agapi
Gönlümdeki Köşk Olmasa (2002) aka Omfavn mig måne or House of Hearts
Martılar Açken (2002)
Oyun (2005)
Solgun Duvarlı Kent (2007)
Son Cellat (2008)
Nokta (2008)^[2] aka Dot
Umut (film) (2009)^[4]
Köy (2009) aka The Village

TV mini-series score

Aysarı'nın Zilleri (1992)
Berivan (2002)
Gelin (2003) aka The Bride
Şıh Senem (2003)
Hacı (2006) aka Hadji
Kara Duvak (2007)
Hanımın Çiftliği (2009)

Theatre music

Yunus Emre (1989 Diyarbakır State Theatre)^[2]
Ferhat ile Şirin (İstanbul City Theatre)

Actor

Hababam Sınıfı Güle Güle (1981)
Hoşçakal Yarın (1998) or Goodbye Tomorrow - Yusuf Arslan
Gönlümdeki Köşk Olmasa (2002) - Ali
Anlat İstanbul (2004) - Şehmuz
Son Cellat (2008) - Ampul Adam
Yahşi Batı (2009) - Wanted Şerif I
Umut (2009) - İlyas

Albums

Çimen Türküleri, Ada Müzik (1995)^[2]
Mem ü Zin, Kalan Müzik (1996)^[2]
Çimen Sesleri, Ada Müzik (2001)^[2]
Feryadı İsyanım, Ada Müzik (2002)^[2]
Buluşmalar, Kalan Müzik (2006)

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Biyografi" (in Turkish). Mazlum Çimen. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 Maro, Asu (2009-07-06). "Halk ozanının balet oğlu!". Milliyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2010-01-11.
↑ "Kahraman devlet olsun babalarımızı korusun!". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2009*05-23. Retrieved 2010-01-11. Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ "Filmler". Milliyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2010-01-11.

External links

Awards
Preceded by Serdar Kalafatoğlu	Golden Orange Award for Best Music Score 1995 for Soğuk Geceler	Succeeded by Yalçın Tura
Preceded by Timur Selçuk	Golden Boll Award for Best Music Score 1995 for Soğuk Geceler	Succeeded by Can Hakgüder
Preceded by Kardeş Türküler	Golden Orange Award for Best Music Score 2002 for Gönlümdeki Köşk Olmasa	Succeeded by Timur Selçuk
Preceded by Zülfü Livaneli	Golden Orange Award for Best Music Score 2008 for Nokta	Succeeded by Mehmet Erdem Özgür Akgül
Preceded by Rahman Altın	Golden Boll Award for Best Music Score 2008 for Nokta	Succeeded by Nail Yurtsever

Golden Orange Award for Best Music

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)
Tamer Çıray (2012)

Golden Boll Award for Best Music Score

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)
Selim Demirdelen (2010)
Mustafa Biber (2011)
Mihaly İliç (2013)

Persondata
Name	Cimen, Mazlum
Alternative names
Short description	Turkish actor, musician and ballet dancer
Date of birth	1958-06-18
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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