Cansu Tanrıkulu is a Berlin-based singer/composer who enjoys experimenting her lungs out. 

Guitarist and Composer Dave Allen has been praised by critics as "an exciting and unique player in the mold of Pat Metheny, Ben Monder and Adam Rogers. “Fantastic technique, a strong melodic sense, great compositions".

At the age of 16 years old, Allen was recognized by Guitar Player Magazine as a talent to watch. Born in Philadelphia, Allen moved to New York to attend the Manhattan School of Music. He has released two critically acclaimed CDs ("Untold Stories" and "Real and Imagined" on the Fresh Sound Label) and is often written about in the New York Times, Downbeat Magazine, Jazz Times Magazine and All About Jazz. He has performed and toured with his own projects throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia and worked with many of the most respected musicians in jazz today, including David Liebman, Mark Turner, Joey Baron, Miguel Zenon, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Binney, Jeff Ballard, Donny McCaslin, Drew Gress, Nasheet Waits, Marcus Gilmore, Jaleel Shaw, Clarence Penn, Seamus Blake and many others.
Allen has performed as a leader at New York's Blue Note, Birdland and Smalls, among many other venues. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall.

All About Jazz says "Allen has a fully developed and mature approach to composition, technical command of his instrument, and the inspirational fortitude to pull wonderful music from the ensemble. Each piece is like an aural painting or film in the way it slides across the psyche." Downbeat Critic David Adler writes: "Drawing inspiration from the deep trough of jazz tradition, the wider world of art and the shape of jazz to come, Dave Allen is one of New York's most promising talents".

Allen is also in demand as a teacher of master classes and workshops internationally. His compositions have become a standard bearer for many musicians, demanding an advanced rhythmic and harmonic vocabulary, while still being strongly melodic and accessible. He has been a faculty member of the New York Jazz Academy and spent two years teaching at the Master's Program of Bahcesehir University in Istanbul. He has given master classes and workshops throughout his travels in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In July of 2016 he moved back to Philadelphia with his family.


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