Tolga Yayalar

Tolga Yayalar

Tolga Yayalar played electric guitar in rock and jazz bands before taking up composition. Upon his encounter with the music of Webern, his first serious works incorporated serialism with jazz. Since then, texture and timbre have always been in the center of his music. To overcome the harmonic and sonic limitations of the tempered system, his music focuses on the different systems of microtonality. As the harmonic series constitute the harmonic focal point of this compositions, he also fuses some of the eastern tuning systems with the western tradition. His music has been highly influenced by his interests in architecture, psychoanalysis and post-structural narrative.

Ensemble and performers who have played Tolga’s music include Ensemble FA, Ying Quartet, Alrm Will Sound, the Cullithumpian Consort, Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, White Rabbit, Yesaroun Duo, Samual Z. Solomon, Benjamin Schwartz, Cihat Askin. His recent projects include an Orchestra piece for Orchestre National de Lorraine.

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