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Utar Artun
Utar Artun was born in Ankara, Turkey . In 2006,
he arranged musical pieces for the theater play
“The 7 Women”. Artun arranged many movie
soundtracks and oldies for symphonic orchestra,
and the Bursa Regional Symphony Orchestra
performed his arrangements and compositions in
live concerts such as the 2008-2011 New Year
Concert and the International Bursa Music
Festival in 2009. Artun performed in 7th
Eskisehir Jazz Festival, 12th International
Ankara Jazz Festival, 6th International Mersin
Music Festival and 25th International Ankara
Music Festival. In 2008, Artun graduated from
Percussion Department of Hacettepe Conservatory
with 2nd Rank (runner-up) Degree of School
Placement Award. (Turkey)
After graduation, he participated to European
Scholarship Tours of Berklee College of Music
and graduated in 2.5 years with summa cum laude
degree. He was awarded for highly “Honorable
Mention” from Berklee Contemporary Symphony
Orchestra Composition Competition, Barnes&Noble
award, 5 Dean’s List awards, Outstanding Pianist
award, Arif Mardin Scholarship Award and Brian
Oliver Memorial Award. He was among the finalist
of ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composers
Competition (2010) and Young Jazz Composers
Competition (2011). In January 2010 and 2012,
one of his compositions was selected to Jazz
Revaluation CD. He is currently a JRR artist of
Berklee College of Music and Artun was a part of
Birds of Feather, Octave and Ripple Effect
albums. In October 2011, he performed with Kevin
Eubanks in the studio recording session of WGBH
Studios - Boston, MA. During his education, He’s
been in workshops, concert performances and
clinics with Bobby McFerrin, Maria Schneider,
Rudresh Mahanthappa, Simon Shaheen, Kenwood
Dennard, Jason Linder and David Fiuczynski. He
involves into the Rhythm of the Universe Project
as an Arranger, Performer and Orchestrator and
Planet MicroJam Institute at Berklee College of
Music.
Artun has done numerous studio recordings,
albums, festivals, concerts and performances in
Turkey, Boston, MA and also New York, NY such as
Undead Jazz Festival. Artun had performances,
touring and clinics in Switzerland (HKB-Bern),
France (Paris, Sunset and Nancy, Music Academy
International), Austria (Innsbruck- Treibhaus),
Germany (Berlin-Aufsturz), Netherlands
(Amsterdam- Panama) and Italy (Gezmataz Jazz
Festival, Genova). He had a debut performance
with Quintet 57 at 19th Istanbul Jazz Festival
and 12th Side Culture Art Festival Golden
Trombone. He had touring with Jussi Reijonen in
Finland along with 8 performances and 5
workshops. Also he had plenty of interviews, TV
broadcasts and newspaper-press cuttings in USA
and Turkey.
He won the 18th HALICI MIDI Composition Contest
and 2nd place in the Berklee Film Scoring
Contest 7. In February 2013, He won runner-up
award of the SCAMV 1st National Symphonic
Composition Contest. Artun is one the highly
awarded scholar of Cagdas Egitim Vakfi. He
arranged music for video with ROTU called “Bizim
Eller Ne Guzel Eller” for the most recent
earthquake that devastated the city of Van,
Turkey. The music video had numerous broadcasts
on national and international TV channels. More
than 50 million people watched it.
He has also composed and arranged over 40 pieces
for symphony orchestra, as well as more than 70
pieces for brass bands and big bands. Featured
on various studio albums as a piano player,
arranger, and drummer. His compositions and
arrangements are performed in USA, Turkey,
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