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Marc Sinan
Marc Sinan is a composer and guitarist. In his work, he explores new forms of collaboration between artists in transcultural and transmedial settings, typically taking on a unified role as composer, artistic director, instrumentalist and producer with his ensemble, the Marc Sinan Company, along with various international guest musicians and partners. Recordings of his work have been released by ECM Records. He lives and works in Berlin.
His compositions, mostly written at full concert length, deal with current social issues like digitalization or warfare.  They have been performed internationally including at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Istanbul Festival and MaerzMusik and in venues such as Gorki Theater, Oper Wuppertal, Bühnen Halle, Theater Bremen, Humboldt-Forum Berlin and Wiener Konzerthaus. Sinan has worked with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dresdner Sinfoniker, the Ensemble Metamorphosis from Belgrade, ConTempo Beijing, the Sonar Quartett, the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Iva Bittová, Kettly Noël, Oğuz Büyükberber, Jörg Widmann, Kayhan Kalhor and numerous other ensembles and artists from Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

Compositions (Examples):
Hasretim (2010)
Oksus (2011)
Dede Korkut (2014)
Komitas (2015)
I Exist (2017)
Number of the Beast (2018)
Endless Pleasures: Survival (2020)
Chaosmos (2020)
Am Anfang (2020)
Different Bombs (2021)
Manifest(o) (2021)


CDs (ECM):
Fasil
Hasretim
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Marc Sinan Company

Since its founding in 2008, the Marc Sinan Company (MS\C) has maintained a strong global reputation and network. Led by composer and guitarist Marc Sinan, the independent ensemble creates award-winning productions that are both transmedial and transcultural, bolstered by an interdisciplinary team and international guests. Fixed members include clarinetist and electronic musician Oğuz Büyükberber, percussionist Daniel Eichholz, author Maike Wetzel, production manager Eric Nikodym, dramaturg Holger Kuhla and sound designer Karsten Lipp.

Among the renowned guests are Iva Bittová, Kettly Noël (Mali), Ulzhan Baibussynova (Kazakhstan), Ensemble ConTempo Beijing (China), the Djiguiya Orchestra (Mali), Damian and Delaine Le Bas (UK) and the multimedia collective schnellebuntebilder. The MS\C performs frequently at top-tier festivals and venues with an evolving line-up – most recently in India, Turkey and the USA. Cooperation partners include the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the Bühnen Halle, the Dresdner Sinfoniker and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Over the years, the MS\C's projects have received several awards, including one from UNESCO.

Musicians Mehri Asadullayeva, kamancheh Araik Bartikian, duduk Ulzhan Baybussynova, dombra, zhirau, vocals Raju Bhopa, vocals Iva Bittová, violin, vocals Mustafa Boztüy, darbuka, framedrum Oğuz Büyükberber, clarinet, electronics, composer Joel Diarra, balafon Daniel Eichholz, percussion Paul Frick, electronics, DJ, composer Sascha Friedl, flute Cosima Gerhardt, violoncello Güç Başar Gülle, ud Susanna Fröhlich, recorder Iida Hirvola, violoncello, voice & gestures Dayam Khan, harmonium, vocals Kayhan Kalhor, kamancheh, composer Kalle Kalima, guitar Jun Kawasaki, contrabass Miako Klein, recorder Meinrad Kneer, contrabass Heinrich Köbberling, percussion Lassiné Koné, kamale ngoni Almut Kühne, vocals, performance Jelena Kuljić, vocals, performance Toir Kuziyev, sato Johannes Lauer, trombone Christian Lillinger, percussion Karen Lorenz, viola, voice & gestures Vazgen Makaryan, duduk, zurna Sasa Mirkovic, viola David Moss, voice, percussion, guitar Marc Muellbauer, contrabass Bernd Özsevim, percussion Papamir, dholak, vocals Ayumi Paul, violin Habib Sangare, bolon Ömer Can Satır, kaval Maria Schneider, percussion Onur Şentürk, kemençe Erdem Şimşek, bağlama Marc Sinan, guitar, composer, director, artistic director Askar Soltangazin, dombra Claudio Puntin, clarinet Carl Thiemt, vocals Lena Thies, viola Matthias Worm, viola Biliana Voutchkova, violin Emily Yabe, violin, voice & gestures Rolf Zielke, piano Composers Oscar Bianchi, composer Turgut Erçetin, composer Julia Hülsmann, composer, pianist Helmut Oehring, composer Vache Sharafyan, composer Jörg Widmann, composer Conductors Florian Helgath, conductor Olaf Katzer, choir director Magnus Loddgard, conductor Andrea Molino, conductor, composer Fabián Panisello, conductor Premil Petrović, conductor Jonathan Stockhammer, conductor Directors Mizgin Bilmen, director Lea-Katharina Gramzow, assistant director Cornelia Just, co-director Konrad Kästner, director Tobias Rausch, director Christopher Werner, director Dramaturgy Nataly Bleuel, author Manfred Hess, dramaturg Oliver Kontny, dramaturg, text, director Holger Kuhla, dramaturg, libretto Marc Schiffer, libretto Maike Wetzel, author Stefanie Wördemann, dramaturg, libretto Stage & Costumes Angela Baumgart, stage, costumes Eylien König, stage, costumes Lili Laube, puppets Cleo Niemeyer, costumes Hagen Tilp, puppets Isabel Vollrath, costumes Visual Art Damian (1963-2017) & Delaine Le Bas, visual artists Raphael Sbrzesny, visual artist, musician Filip Zorzor, painter, stage, video Performers Nora Abdel-Maksoud, narrator Adolfo Assor, narrator Elmira Bahrami, narrator Claudia Luise Bose, actor Marie Bretschneider, performance Simon Buchegger, actor Jan Bülow, narrator Salome Dastmalchi, narrator Nils Dreschke, actor Ines Heinrich Frank, actor Ulrike Langenbein, performance Alina Manoukian, narrator Sebastian Mirow, actor Nico Parisius, narrator Franziska Rattay, actor Lars Rudolph, actor, narrator Rike Schuberty, performance Jasmin Tabatabai, narrator Sesede Terziyan, actor Annemie Twardawa, performance Claudia Wiedemer, performance Bijan Zamani, narrator Maryam Zaree, narrator Choreographers Kettly Noël, choreography Aydin Teker, choreography Sound Volker Greve, tonmeister Asle Karstadt, tonmeister Silvio Naumann, sound Torsten Ottersberg, sound conception, -production & -direction Video / Interactive Design Cyberräuber, video Hans-Peter Eckardt, camera, video Adrian Figueroa, video Fabian Knecht, video Clemens Hübner, video editing Maria Lanowski, video Isabel Robson, video, stage schnellebuntebilder, video, stage design, light design Lonni Wong, video Partner Ensembles AuditivVokal Bielefelder Opernchor Bielefelder Philharmoniker Bremer Philharmoniker Dresdner Kammerchor Dresdner Sinfoniker Ensemble ConTempo Ensemble Metamorphosis Julia Hülsmann Trio National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart No Borders Orchestra Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal Sonar Quartett Staatskappelle Halle Theater Bremen Institutional Partners Anadolu Kültür Auswärtiges Amt Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung Berliner Staatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing Complexe Culturel BlonBa Creative Europe Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission Die Irritierte Stadt ECM Records Ethnologisches Museum in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin Fonds Experimentelles Musiktheater Fonds Soziokultur GIZ Goethe-Institut Hauptstadtkulturfonds Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden Humboldtforum Berlin Jaipur Virasat Foundation KULTUR 2007–2013 Kulturstiftung der Deutsch-Türkischen Wirtschaft Kulturstiftung des Bundes Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen Kulturstiftung Dresden der Dresdner Bank Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt Kunststiftung NRW Landeshauptstadt Dresden Maxim Gorki Theater Musik der Jahrhunderte netzwerk junge ohren NRW KULTURsekretariat Oper Bremen Oper Halle Oper Wuppertal Pécs 2010 Puppentheather Halle Radialsystem Rajeev Goenka Music Academy Dundlod rbbKultur Riksteatern – Swedish National Touring Senatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Swedish International Development Agency SWR2 Verlag Buchfunk whiteBOX München YMUSIC
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