Mehmet Ali Sanlikol (born September 24, 1974) is a Grammy nominated Turkish-American composer and CMES Harvard University fellow who is a jazz pianist and singer that also performs a number of Near and Middle Eastern instruments as well as the Continuum Fingerboard.
The Boston Globe calls Sanlikol's music “colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of feeling" and "not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized”, “...and he (Sanlikol) is another who could play decisive role in music’s future in the world.”