Kudsi Erguner
Kudsi Erguner is a Turkish musician. He is considered a master of traditional Mevlevi Sufi music and is one of the best-known players of the Turkish ney flute.
Biography
As a boy, Erguner studied with his father Ulvi Erguner and attended the Sema of the Mevlevi-Sufi tradition along with other Dervish ceremonies. He started his musical career in Istanbul Radio in 1969. For several decades, he has researched the earliest roots of Ottoman music which he has also taught, performed and recorded.In the seventies Erguner moved to Paris where, at the beginning of the eighties, he founded the Mevlana Institute devoted to the study and teaching of classical Sufi music. Together with the Kudsi Erguner Ensemble he developed deep insights into the diversity of his culture: the group conveys both authentic, often improvised forms of expression of classical Ottoman performance culture as well as a comprehensive repertoire of modern and classical pieces that can be traced back to the 13th century.
He took part in Peter Brook's movie Meetings with Remarkable Men in 1978.
In addition to his own recordings, Erguner has performed with Peter Gabriel, William Orbit's band Bassomatic, Jean Michel Jarre, Maurice Béjart, Peter Brook, George Aperghis, Didier Lockwood, Italian singer-songwriter Alice and Michel Portal.
In July 2016, he was named UNESCO Artist for peace.
Discography
Meditation on the Ney, 1978Whirling Dervishes from Turkey, with Kemal Evren, Tugrul Inancer, Aram Kerovpyan, Muzzffereddîn Ozak, Hafiz Kemâl Ozmutlu, Mahmud Tabrîzîzade, 1981Turkey: Art of the Ottoman Tanbur, 1989The Mystic Flutes of Sufi: Preludes to Ceremonies of the Whirling Dervishes, with Suleyman Erguner, 1988Cérémonie des Derviches Kadiri, 1989Fasl Hidjaz Houmayoun, 1990Sufi Music of Turkey, with Suleyman Erguner, Mahmoud Tabrizi Zadeh, Bruno Caillat, 1990The Turkish Ney, with Salih Dede, Suleyman Erguner, 1990Gazel: Classical Sufi Music of the Ottoman Empire, with Husnu Anil, Aziz Bahriyeli, Yusuf Bilgin, Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Suleyman Erguner, Hasan Esen, Fevzi Misir, Walter Quintus, Kurt Renker, 1991Ottoman Classical Music, with Gilles Andrieux, 1992Peshrev & Semai of Tanburi Djemil Bey, with Walter Quintus, 1994L'Orient de L'Occident: Flamenco & Ottoman Sufi Music, with Yusuf Bilgin. Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Bruno Caillat, Pedro Soler, 1995The Sacred Flute of the Whirling Dervishes, 1996Works of Kemani Tatyos Efendi, with Husnu Anil, Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Suleyman Erguner, Necip Gulses, Dogan Hosses, Sükrü Kabaci, Baki Kemanci, 1996Vocal Masterpieces of Kemani Tatyos Efendi, with Husnu Anil, Suleyman Erguner, Necip Gulses, Dogan Hosses, Sükrü Kabaci, Baki Kemanci, 1996Psalms of Yunus Emre, with Yusuf Bilgin, Bruno Caillat, 1997Chemins, with Pierre Rigopoulos, Martin Saint-Pierre, Derya Turkan, 1997Music from the Arabian Nights, with Bruno Caillat, Tabrizi Mahmoud Zadeh, 1999Ottomania, with Walter Quintus, 1999Islam Blues, with Bruno Caillat, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Nguyên Lê, Derya Turkan, Mark Nauseef, Yunus Balcioglu, Halil Neciboglu, Walter Quintus, 2001Taj Mahal, with Bruno Caillat, Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Derya Turkan, Ken Zukerman, 2001Nazım Hikmet – Şair Cenazesi, 2002Gazing Point, with Markus Stockhausen, Mark Nauseef, Walter Quintus, 2003No Matter, with Markus Stockhausen, Mark Nauseef, Bill Laswell, Walter Quintus, 2008Fragments Des Cérémonies Soufies, L'invitation à L'Extase, Kudsi Erguner & Lâmekân Ensemble, Seyir Muzik 2021With Anouar Brahem