Birth name Atilla Role Musician Name Atilla Engin | Years active Since 1966 Origin Kayseri, Turkey | |
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Genres Jazz
Jazz fusion
Jazz rock
World music Occupation(s) Musician, composer, arranger, percussionist, conductor, performer, educator Instruments Drums
percussion instrument Similar People Djuma Soundsystem, Okay Temiz, Niels‑Henning Orsted Pedersen, Fecri Ebcioglu, Pierre Dorge | ||
Atilla Engin- Gokte Yildizmisin Aymisin....mpg
Atilla Engin (b. 1946 Kayseri Turkey) is a Turkish American fusion jazz musician. From 1974 to 2001 he was active in Denmark as a musician and educator; he organized music festivals and represented Denmark as a musical ambassador. In 2001, he left Denmark for the United States, where he formed an orchestra.
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- Atilla Engin Gokte Yildizmisin Aymisinmpg
- Recording and teaching in Copenhagen
- Tyrkis
- Move to the United States
- Discography
- References
Recording and teaching in Copenhagen
Engin first played and recorded in Istanbul, moving to Copenhagen in 1974, and playing with several groups. He released his first album Turkish Delight with the band Matao. They performed at Roskilde Festival in 1979. His other group, "Atilla Engin Group", released five albums. While he was recording and touring with his band, he also taught at the Copenhagen Jazz Conservatory, for four years. Engin formed a band with 12 Copenhagen Jazz Conservatory students and they toured Turkey. This project ended with a joint concert with The Istanbul Radio Big Orchestra at The Ataturk Cultural Center in Istanbul.
In 1985 Engin was awarded the title Composer of The Year in Denmark. In the same year, the Atilla Engin Group was appointed as Denmark's cultural ambassador to represent the country in conjunction with the European Music Year 1985.
Engin established the World to World Drums And Percussion Festival in Copenhagen. Engin formed this festival in Copenhagen, with events taking place in Aarhus and Malmö, Sweden. The festival included performances by Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Nana Vasconcelos, Peter Giger, Danny Gottlieb, and others. He participated in an international festival in India, Tal Vadhya Utsav, in India.
Tyrkis
He taught an evening class of 16 young musicians at the Rhythmic Evening School in Copenhagen in 1984, turning them into a band named Tyrkis which performed at Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen. In 1987, Tyrkis won first prize at the Dortmunder Big Band Festival in Germany and released an album, My Little Chinese Love.
Move to the United States
He left Denmark in 1989 for New York, and formed the New World Orchestra and a six-piece group, Turquoise. Engin left the US for Brazil in 2005.