Artists from Turkey

1. SINAN THE ARCHITECT
"Sinan the Architect" (c. 1489/1490 – July 17, 1588) was the chief Ottoman architect (Turkish: mimar)
and civil engineer for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III. He was responsible for
the construction of more than 300 major structures and other more modest projects.His apprentices
would later design the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, Stari Most in Mostar, and help design the Taj
Mahal in the Mughal Empire.

2. SEDEFKAR MEHMET AGHA
Sedefkar
Mehmed Agha
(about 1540 -
1617) is recorded
as the Ottoman
architect of the
Sultan Ahmed
Mosque (the "Blue
Mosque") in

3. FAZIL SAY
Fazil Say, son of musicologist
Ahmet Say, established a substantial
dual career as a pianist and composer
during the 1990s. As a performer, he
has won numerous competitions and
has performed with some of the
finest orchestras worldwide. He is
also active as a jazz pianist and
regularly performs at international
jazz festivals. His compositions have
been broadly performed and
recorded, and his works are
published by Schott.
He has performed with some of the
world’s great orchestras, including New
York Philharmonic, the
Concertgebouw Orchestra, the
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the
BBC Philharmonic, and theOrchestre
National de France. His repertoire
ranges from the Baroque to the
contemporary and he has recorded works
by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and
Gershwin.

4. IDIL BIRET
 dil Biretİ (born 21
November 1941 in
Ankara, Turkey) is a
Turkish concert pianist,
renowned for her
interpretations of the
Romantic repertoire.
From the age of 16,
Biret played as a soloist
with the most
distinguished orchestras
in the world including
the London Symphony,
the Philharmonia, the
London Philharmonic,
In 1995, Biret's recordings of Chopin's
entire oeuvre was awarded the "Grand
Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin" in
Poland. In 2007 she was decorated
with Distinguished Service Order -
Cavalry Cross by the Polish President
Lech Kaczynski for her contributions to
Polish culture with her recordings and
performances of Chopin's music.

5. OSMAN HAMDİ BEY
 Osman Hamdi Bey (1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art
expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is
considered as the pioneer of the museum curator's profession in Turkey. He was the founder of
Istanbul Archaeology Museums and of stanbul Academy of Fine Artsİ (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi in Turkish),
known today as the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts.

6. BEDRI BAYKAM
One of Turkey’s
internationally most
well known artists and
intellectuals, Bedri
Baykam was born in
1957, in Ankara,
Turkey. He started to
paint when he was only
two years old, and has
had several exhibitions
since the age of six in
Bern, Geneva, New
York, Washington,
London, Rome,

7. BEDRI BAYKAM
One of Turkey’s
internationally most
well known artists and
intellectuals, Bedri
Baykam was born in
1957, in Ankara,
Turkey. He started to
paint when he was only
two years old, and has
had several exhibitions
since the age of six in
Bern, Geneva, New
York, Washington,
London, Rome,