Theses and Lectures on Türkmen’s Music
Onur Türkmen’in Sailing to Byzantium eserinin bestecilik teknikleri açısından incelenmesi
(The analysis of Onur Türkmen’s Sailing to Byzantium in terms of composition techniques), Baran Doğaç Ünal, Aysun Serdar, Proficiency in Arts Art Work Report, Master’s Thesis, Hacettepe University Graduate School of Fine Arts, 2025 (in Turkish)
“An analysis of Sailing to Byzantium: A Ritualistic Drama on the Moon, Swans and Soul” at Biennial Baltic Musicological Conference, Dilara Turan, conference presentation, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, 2024
Onur Türkmen’in “Hat” besteleme tekniğinin “Beautiful and unowned” ve “Noktalar”(Points) adlı eserlerine olan yansıması
(The reflection of Onur Türkmen’s “Line” composition technique on “Beautiful and unowned” and “Points”), Aysun Serdar, Master’s Thesis, Başkent University Institute of Social Sciences, 2020 (in Turkish)
Onur Türkmen’in Müziğinde Hat Tekniğinin Orkestra Şefliği Açısından İncelenmesi,
(Examination of Onur Türkmen’s Hat Technique of Composition Through Orchestral Conducting), Şerif Can Ünver, Master’s Thesis, Hacettepe University Graduate School of Fine Arts, 2019 (in Turkish)
Reviews
“Turkish Flavours, 100 Years of Turkish Symphonic Music” album (featuring “Gel”), Pizzicato, Remy Franck’s Journal about Classical Music
Gılgamış, parlando opera, concert version premiere, Sanattan Yansımalar, Pınar Aydın O’Dwyer (Turkish)
Gılgamış, parlando opera, concert version premiere, Cumhuriyet, Evin İlyasoğlu (Turkish)
Beautiful and Unowned, Glyn Pursglove MusicWeb International
Beautiful and Unowned, Huntley Dent Fanfare Magazine
Ulrich Mertin’s Playlist @ Van Outernational featuring Points
Review on Sailing to Byzantium Premiere, Jane Harrison
Review on but you alone, Rebecca Wishnia / San Francisco Classical Voice
Lectures and Podcasts
Interactive Talk Series on Music History: “İzlerin Sesleri”, Mod Art Collective (in Turkish)
Gılgamış, premiere pre-concert lectures: Şebnem İşigüzel / Onur Türkmen (in Turkish)
Sailing to Byzantium, Arter New and Newest Music Festival, pre-concert lecture (in Turkish)
Gılgamış premiere pre-concert lectures: İsmail Gezgin (in Turkish)
Gılgamış premiere pre-concert lectures: Özkan Bapbacı (in Turkish)
Gılgamış premiere pre-concert lectures: Sinan Canan (in Turkish)
Gılgamış premiere pre-concert lectures: Erberk Eryılmaz and Salih Gündoğdu (in Turkish)
Arter New Music Festival, Panel on the theory of New Music (in Turkish)
Usmanbaş Partita per violino solo (1985) (in Turkish)
Podcast: Deniz Aşırı (açık radyo) (episodes on J. L. Adams, Debussy, Elgar and Takemitsu)
(in Turkish) (spotify)
Podcast: Nasıl Dinlemeli (in Turkish) (spotify)
Podcast: Nasıl Dinlemeli (in Turkish) (youtube)
The Relation Between Time and Context in Music Composition (in Turkish)
Müzikte hattın poetikası (in Turkish)
Evolution of Polyphony and its Absence in Turkish Music (in English)
Interviews
Radyo Bilkent, Demarkaj, Interview “Bestecilik ve müzik Eseri Üretimi”, Interview (in Turkish), 2025 December
Andante (Turkey’s Classical Music Magazine), Interview (in Turkish), 2025 November
Bilkent News interview
NK ensemble album, Havuz, interviews 1
NK ensemble album, Havuz, interviews 2
NK ensemble album, Havuz interviews 3
NK ensemble album, Havuz, interviews 4
NK ensemble album, Havuz, interviews 5
NK ensemble album, Havuz, interviews 6
NK ensemble album, Havuz, interviews 7
NK ensemble album, Havuz, interviews 8
Sei Solo 2020 by Klasik Keyifler
Con Fuoco, Radyo Gedik (in Turkish)
Sailing to Byzantium at RTE Radio 1
Sailing to Byzantium (short film on the world premiere)
soL Portal (in Turkish)
Interview about Klasik Keyifler 2012
2017 Guitarplus Microtonal Würzburg
Unvoiced Diaries Documentary (in Turkish)
Introduction to Sei Solo 2020
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