MEHMET ALI SANLIKOL

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol is a Grammy nominated composer and CMES Harvard University Fellow. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in April 2016 premiering his commissioned piece Harabat/The Intoxicated with the American Composers Orchestra. Other recent works have been heard at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall and on A Far Cry string orchestra’s recording Dreams and Prayers. He hails from Cyprus and Turkey, and is also a Jazziz Top 10 Critics’ Choice 2014 pick, a Jazz pianist, a multi-instrumentalist, and an active ethnomusicologist. Sanlıkol has been praised by critics all over the world for his unique, pluralist, multicultural, and energetic musical voice. The Boston Globe noted that Sanlıkol’s “music is colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of feeling. The multiculturalism is not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized; Sanlıkol is a citizen of the world … and [Sanlıkol] is another who could play a decisive role in music’s future in the read more...