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Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
Grammy nominated composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol hails from Cyprus and Turkey, and is a Jazz pianist, a multi-instrumentalist, a singer, an ethnomusicologist as well as a professor at the New England Conservatory. Sanlıkol is the recipient of numerous respected awards including the South Arts Jazz Road Creative Residency Grant in 2021, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Grant in 2016 and 2020 as well as the New Music USA Project Grant in 2020 and 2024, and has been praised by critics all over the world for his unique, pluralist, multicultural and energetic musical voice. The Boston Globe noted that Sanlıkol’s “music is colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of feeling. The multiculturalism is not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized; Sanlıkol is a citizen of the world”, “…and he (Sanlıkol) is another who could play decisive role in music’s future in the world.” A musical polymath, Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol has composed for, performed and toured with international stars and ensembles such as Dave Liebman, Bob Brookmeyer, Billy Cobham, Antonio Sanchez, Anat Cohen, Ingrid Jensen, Tiger Okoshi, Miguel Zenón, John Patitucci, Gil Goldstein, Esperanza Spalding, The Boston Camerata, The Boston Cello Quartet, A Far Cry string orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Okay Temiz, Erkan Oğur and Birol Yayla.

Songs

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Talk About a Turkish Blues
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
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Beyati Yürük Semai
DUNYA
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Güzeller
DUNYA
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Soson Kyrie Ton Laon Sou
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
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Biz Canları Güle Vermişiz
DUNYA

Albums

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Lessons from Nightingales: Songs of Sufi Mysteries

2025
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Abraham: Music for Three Faiths (feat. Jazzaar Global Ensemble & Billy Cobham)

2019
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A Story of the City: Constantinople, Istanbul

2011
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7 Shades of Melancholia

2025
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Resolution

2016
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Kıbrıs'ın Sesi (feat. Theoduulos Vakanas, Cem Mutlu & Panayiotis League)

2007
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Çalıcı Mehterler (The Musician Mehters)

2024
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Whatsnext

2014
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An Elegant Ritual

2021
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For You the World, for Us the Roses

2011

Singles & EPs

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Talk About a Turkish Blues

Single • 2024
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(This Is) the Boston Beat

Single • 2021
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Hatam Ne? (Where Did I Go Wrong?)

Single • 2014

Videos

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The Boston Beat (feat. Miguel Zenón, Anat Cohen & Antonio Sánchez)

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol • 11K views
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The Turkish 2nd Line (New Orleans Çiftetellisi) (feat. Anat Cohen)

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol • 36K views

Live performances

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The Vegetarian Dervishes - Semai

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, A Far Cry, & George Lernis • 1.1K views
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Excerpts from "A Gentleman of Istanbul" with Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, George Lernis & A Far Cry

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, A Far Cry, & George Lernis • 2.8K views
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Alexander the Great - Devr - I Kebir & Vivace

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, A Far Cry, & George Lernis • 985 views
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Hüseyni Jam at Jordan Hall (NEC) featuring the R17, a microtonal keyboard

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol • 1.7K views

Playlists by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol

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Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Jazz Orchestra in C

Playlist • Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol • 5 views

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