Chamber Music

Performed by "Sirene" Women's Choir
Conductor: Volkan Akkoç
Poem by Gonca Özmen
Commissioned by Gedik Art Foundation, Turkey

Belki Sessiz (2020)

Nocturne & Toccata No.1 (2006)

Flute: Sibel Ayhan
Piano: Aylin Çakıcı
Electronics: Mesruh Savaş, 2009

Deformed Reflections (2009)

Violin: Emre Engin
Piano: Alison Rhind, 2010

Dream of Gilgamesh (2010)

Quotations used in the composition are all taken from the single composition of Tanburi Cemil Bey's "Şedaraban Saz Semaisi".
Live concert recording. 12 June 2012
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen
Conductor: Sven Thomas Kiebler

Quotations (2012)

Turkish composer Mesruh Savaş was born in Bulgaria in 1978 and began his music education by playing the piano. After moving to Turkey, he enrolled in Bilkent University in Ankara becoming a student at Theory & Composition Department of Music and Performing Arts Faculty. Here he studied composition and conducting with Işın Metin, Bujor Hoinic, Alfred Michourin and Elena Pushkova. In 2004 his composition Two Movements for Orchestra was awarded with mansion price at “5th Eczacıbaşı National Composition Competition” which helped him made a name among young Turkish composers (he was awarded with second prize for his ballet music The Phoenix at the same competition in 2012).
Later he continued his composition studies with Hasan Uçarsu at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory in İstanbul, gradually evolving his music style emerging from and guided by a strong sense of harmonic movement and textural transformation.
 Currently a full-time member of the İstanbul University State Conservatory, Savaş also works in the fields of electronic and electro acoustic music and is busy promoting the cause of new music.