After a childhood wholeheartedly devoted to painting and poetry, Büyükberber began practising music by himself. As a child with very poor eye-sight from birth, he was accustomed to defying his limits. Within a very short period, having graduated from university where he read design, he was already making his living out of his bass clarinet. To-date he has over 20 CD appearences including two solo albums to his name, has worked together with artists like Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Craig Harris and Brooklyn Funk Essentials, has received three "Best instrumentalist" awards, and played at various international festivals. Since 1997 he has played with the Ayse Tütüncü Piano Perc. Ensemble and since 2004, with her Trio, appearing on both her albums Variations and Carnivalesque. Without forgetting his roots, he prefers to compose an open musical life for himself, with a range from still life to abstract. "Contemporary to ethnic, compositional to free".

 

   

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