2006 Gloria (Everywhere) Ataturk'un Gunes Ulkesi Temple II last night, in Istanbul... Hammers and Whistlers 2005 Symphony No. 5 Galatasaray 2004 Strange Stone Sheherazade Alive Requiem Without Words 2003 Istathenople 2002 Drawings Gates 2001 Sarkici/The Singer (film score) MKG Variations (guitar version) Flight Box 2000 It's been 80 years One for Eight Symphony No. 4 Sardis < later   > earlier Partita in E (2007) First Performance October 23, 2009 Cihat Askin, Amy Salsgiver Istanbul Modern Music Ensemble Istanbul, Turkey Instrumentation violin, percussion Duration 22' Listen Partita in E Program Notes Partita in E is commissioned by Cihat Askin, my friend and one of Turkey's foremost violinists. I wanted to bring together the spiritual qualities of violin's past from purified, deep qualities of Bach, to the percussion's spiritual, raw, percussive qualities with Turkish folk and Ottoman court music, in an obsessive, hypnotic journey.  Press Quote