Awards & Discography

• New Music USA Creator Fund Grant, 2024
• Grammy award nomination with A Far Cry string orchestra, 2023
• Massachusetts Cultural Council Festivals & Projects Grant, 2023
• South Arts Jazz Road Creative Residency Grant, 2021
• Massachusetts Cultural Council Traditional Artist Apprenticeships Master Artist, 2021 & 2022
• New Music USA Project Grant, 2020
• The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program Grant, 2020
• Live Arts Boston Grant from The Boston Foundation, 2020
• The American Turkish Society Moon & Stars Project Grant, 2020
• Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist, 2019
• Live Arts Boston Grant from The Boston Foundation, 2019
• TEDx Talk, 2019
• Live Arts Boston Grant from The Boston Foundation, 2018
• Creative City Grant from New England England Foundation for the Arts, 2017
• The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Performance Program Grant, 2016
• Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research Grant from Eastman School of Music, 2015
• Grammy award nomination with A Far Cry string orchestra, 2014
• Associate of the Music Department designation at Harvard University, 2013
• Fellowship in Turkish Culture and Art granted by Turkish Cultural Foundation, 2012
• Clare Fischer Award from the Professional Writing Division of Berklee College of Music, 1997

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY

• An Elegant Ritual (Dünya, 2021)

• Whatsnext? (Dünya, 2014)
• Resolution (Dünya, 2016)
• The Rise Up (Dünya, 2020)
• Turkish Hipster (Dünya, 2023)

• Black Spot (Kalan, 1998)
• Asitane (Aura/EMI, 2003)

• Come see what love has done to me (Dünya, 2005)
• The Psalms of Ali Ufki (Dünya, 2006)
• Music of Cyprus (Dünya/Kalan, 2007)
• Lale Ve Kılıç/The Tulip and The Sword (Dünya, 2007)
• Kuş Dili: The Language of Birds (Dünya, 2008)
• Dünya Size Güller Bize/For You The World, For Us The Roses (Dünya, 2009)
• A Story of The City: Constantinople, Istanbul (Dünya, 2011)
• A Sacred Music Celebration: Greek Orthodoxy and Turkish Sufism (Dünya, 2011)

• A Gentleman of Istanbul: Symphony for Strings, Percussion, Piano, Oud, Ney & Tenor (Crier Records, 2023)

• Abraham: Music for Three Faiths (feat. Jazzaar Global Ensemble & Billy Cobham) (Shanti, 2019)

• Talk About A Turkish Blues (Dünya, 2024)
• (This is) The Boston Beat (Dünya, 2021)
• Hatam Ne?/Where Did I Go Wrong? (Dünya, 2014)

• Wisdom and Turkish Humor (Dünya, 2007)

• Othello in the Seraglio (Dünya, 2019)

• What a World (Dünya, 2014)