İstemihan Taviloğlu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

İstemihan Taviloğlu

Turkish composer

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1945

Place of Birth: Tekirdağ, Turkey

Date of Death: 17-Mar-2006

Profession: composer

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Istemihan Taviloglu (15 April 1945 – 17 March 2006) was a Turkish composer and a music educator.
He's most known piece is the Clarinet Concerto which happens to be the first ever Clarinet Concerto composition from a Turkish composer.
He is also the co-founder of the Musicology department in Ankara State Conservatory.
He is also known as the teacher of all the musicians that came from conservatories in Turkey. Born in Tekirdag, Turkey on April 15, 1945, he was the third child of Ahmet and Nuriye Taviloglu.
Istemihan entered the Istanbul Conservatory at the age of eleven began violin instruction for one year, and changed his concentration to clarinet under the direction of Tevfik Çelen.
In 1963 he transferred to Ankara State Conservatory and continued his clarinet education with Hayrullah Duygu.
After he graduated with a music performance degree as a clarinet player he began pursuing his Master's and DMA degrees in music composition and theory under Adnan Saygun and Erçivan Saydam.
In addition he also took composition from Ilhan Usmanbas and studied Music Theory and Solfege with Muammer Sun. Taviloglu taught at Ankara State Conservatory and at Dokuz Eylül Conservatory in Izmir.
According to the Turkish Daily News, he composed the first Turkish clarinet concerto. Including some of his famous students and colleagues: Ahmet Kanneci, Fazil Say.