Timur Selçuk

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

Biography

He is a son of Turkish neo-classical music composer Münir Nurettin Selçuk and the elder brother of the jazz drummer and composer Selim Selçuk. His great-uncle was the Ottoman Grand Vizier Abdurrahman Nurettin Pasha. He started playing piano at the age of 5 and gave his first concert at age 7. He was educated in Galatasaray High School and Istanbul Municipal Conservatory.

Selçuk returned home after his study at the École 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. 14 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.

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

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

References

(Turkish) Timur Selçuk's biography
(Turkish) Full discography

External links

Timur Selçuk at the Internet Movie Database
Timur Selçuk Personal and Professional Homepage http://www.timurselcuk.net/

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

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)

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)

Persondata
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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