2014 Abandoned Songs with other Words 2013 Two Step Passion ver. for piano trio Fortuna Sepio Nos it's a nasreddin Zamboturfidir 2012 Drawings vers. for cello and piano Judgment of Midas (opera in two acts) Asumani Symphony in Blue 2011 Still, Flow, Surge The Invasion Two Step Passion Thyestes 2009 Requiem for Mehmet Far Variations Concerto for Orcestra, Turkish Instruments and Voices 2008 Dreamlines Road to Memphis 2007 Partita in E Nihavent Longa Music for a Lost Earth > earlier In White (1999) First Performance April 1999 Contemporary Chamber Players Susan Waterbury, violin Kamran Ince, conductor Scheidt School of Music, University of Memphis Memphis, TN Instrumentation solo violin, fl., alt. sax., ten., sax., female voice, male voice, el. bass, pi./synth., cello Duration 18'30" Listen In White Program Notes In White (violin concerto) is commissioned by violinist Susan Waterbury in 1999. It is constructed of five small continuous movements (slow-fast-slow-fast-slow), separated by several cadenzas in the violin. The slow sections typically are of spiritual nature, with lines and shapes derived from my affinity for the great religious architectural designs of the various Anatolian civilizations, Christian and Muslim worlds. Some works that share similar starting points for me are Domes, Lines and Arches. In contrasting sections the work contains Turkish-like melodies, with perpetually driving sections with irregular meters, a characteristic of Anatolian music. These are juxtaposed on expansive lines with a pulse of their own.