Burak Özdemir is a composer, bassoonist and a conductor. He studied historical performance and composition at The Juilliard School, University of the Arts Berlin and at the Istanbul Conservatory. In 2008 he founded Musica Sequenza at the Juilliard School New York; an ensemble which stands for the innovation of baroque music and intercultural production. In 2010 Özdemir moved back to Berlin, where he practices new performance modalities through self-developed methods. Burak Özdemir has created internationally renowned productions such as “Sampling Baroque” and “Bach : The Silent Cantata” as well as the immersive sound installation series “Transmute”.
Özdemir’s musical activities have been seen in Europe, North and South America and Asia, in spaces such as Elbphilharmonie, Peter J Sharp Theater, Berghain, Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw, Staatsoper Vienna, Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires. As a soloist he has appeared with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic, L’arte del Mondo, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra and Lautten Compagney and collaborated with Menahem Pressler, Sasha Waltz, Rolando Villazon, Matthew Herbert, Werner Ehrhardt, Fazil Say, Rodriguez Jr, Andreas Scholl, Rias Kammerchor, Wolfgang Katschner, Hernan Cattaneo, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Natacha Atlas and Edita Gruberova.
Portrait credit: Daniel Mulder
BURAK ÖZDEMİR
TURKEY / GERMANY
Interminata, 2022.
Audio-visual installation, 9 minutes 28 seconds.
With Interminata, composer and conceptual artist Burak Özdemir shines the spot on the lost heritage of human spirituality through de-territorialising images of water. The immersive installation questions the effects of global commercial currents and everyday materialism on our soulful existence. The watery environs of the work evoke immanent and mystical states of intrauterine wholeness prior to the formation of the ego. Through approximately 10-minute-long uninterrupted modules the audience is sent into a trance-like state where they can touch utopia and experience the possibilities of daydreaming.
Burak Özdemir is a composer, bassoonist and a conductor. He studied historical performance and composition at The Juilliard School, University of the Arts Berlin, and at the Istanbul Conservatory. In 2008 he founded Musica Sequenza at the Juilliard School New York, an ensemble which stands for the innovation of baroque music and intercultural production. In 2010 Özdemir moved back to Berlin where he practices new performance modalities through self-developed methods.
