{"id":138,"date":"2015-06-04T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/?p=138"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:43:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:43:47","slug":"ahmet-kanneci-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/ahmet-kanneci-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmet Kanneci- Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kanneci_gitar\"<\/a>Ahmet KANNEC\u0130 was born in Turkey on June 21st, 1957. He began his music (theory) studies with one of Turkey\u2019s leading composers, Turgay ERDENER, and continued later on with \u0130stemihan TAV\u0130LO\u011eLU and AL\u0130 SEVG\u0130. After meeting Julian BYZANTINE in 1977, his interest turned totally to classical guitar performances. He continued his studies with Julian BYZANTINE, while studying at the METU Department of Architecture. Four years later, while graduating from the Department of Architecture, he was awarded a scholarship from the Spanish Government to study with
\nJos\u00e9 TOMAS at the \u201cConservatorio Superior de Musica Oscar Espl\u00e1 de Alicante\u201d. He has had the privilege of playing for Alirio DIAZ and receiving his critical acclaim.<\/p>\n

When he returned to his native country, Turkey, he was the first to found the classical guitar departments in four different conservatories. In 1993, he was awarded by Fulbright, a scholarship for research in the USA for which he was awarded with \u201cLife Time Achievement in Art\u201d. He was also awarded \u201cHonorary Doctorate\u201d by Harran University and Isparta S.D. University, Turkey, the
\n\u201cAward of Appreciation\u201d by Middle East Technical University, Turkey, the \u201cArt Award\u201d by Hacettepe University, Turkey and the\u201d Guitarist of the Year Award\u201d given fort he first time by Y\u0131ld\u0131z Technical University, Turkey. In addition to his musical activities in Turkey, he appeared
\nin Europe, Asja, and in Americas at various concert halls such as Museo Andr\u00e9s Segovia (Spain),
\nCarnegie Hall (USA), Merkin Concert Hall (USA), Royal Festival Hall (UK) and Teatro Colon (Argentina). Besides his solo guitar concerts, he gave duo concerts with several artists such as Victor PIKAIZEN (Violin), Ayhan ERMAN ( Violin), Jorge CARDOSO (Guitar), Selva ERDENER (Soprano), Dorothy RANDOLPH (Baroque Violin),\u015eefika KUTLUER (Flute), Ekrem OZTAN (Clarinette), Hiroki Terashima (Guitar), Javier Garcia MORENO (Guitar), Diler ARGAT (Piano), Sibel OZG\u00dcN
\n(Piano), and Ataol BEHRAMOLU (Poet). He was also the soloist several times in guitar concertos
\nwith orchestra.<\/p>\n

Currently KANNECI is the chairman of the Department of Guitar at Hacettepe University State Conservatory and he is giving guitar courses at Sevda – Cenap AND Music Foundation in Ankara. He concentrates on performing works which have been dedicated to him, and is conducting research in guitar music that he has started with the distinguished Turkish guitarist Sava \u00c7EK\u0130RGE. The following modern composers have written compositions and dedicated them to him: T. ERDENER, F. SAY, J. CARDOSO, F. ORTIZ, E. BAYRAKTAR, H. E. KORKMAZ, I. TAV\u0130LO\u011eLU, N. BOSNA, M.A. CHERUBITO,C. PADRO,T.WALKER, M.TOROS,T. SHAHIDI,
\nM. HOSHINO, H.TERASHIMA, F. CUENCA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahmet KANNEC\u0130 was born in Turkey on June 21st, 1957. He began his music (theory) studies with one of Turkey\u2019s leading composers, Turgay ERDENER, and continued later on with \u0130stemihan TAV\u0130LO\u011eLU and AL\u0130 SEVG\u0130. After meeting Julian BYZANTINE in 1977, his interest turned totally to classical guitar performances. He continued his studies with Julian BYZANTINE, while studying at the METU Department of Architecture. Four years later, while graduating from the Department of Architecture, he was awarded a scholarship from the Spanish Government to study with Jos\u00e9 TOMAS at the \u201cConservatorio Superior de Musica Oscar Espl\u00e1 de Alicante\u201d. He has had the privilege of playing for Alirio DIAZ and receiving his critical acclaim. When he returned to his native country, Turkey, he was the first to found the classical guitar departments in four different conservatories. In 1993, he was awarded by Fulbright, a scholarship for research in the USA for which he was awarded with \u201cLife Time Achievement in Art\u201d. He was also awarded \u201cHonorary Doctorate\u201d by Harran University and Isparta S.D. University, Turkey, the \u201cAward of Appreciation\u201d by Middle East Technical University, Turkey, the \u201cArt Award\u201d by Hacettepe University, Turkey and the\u201d Guitarist of the Year Award\u201d given fort he first time by Y\u0131ld\u0131z Technical University, Turkey. In addition to his musical activities in Turkey, he appeared in Europe, Asja, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanneci.org\/yeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}