by Mike Telin

A native of Turkey, Cenk Ergün (pronounced “Jenk”) is a New York-based composer and improviser whose music has been performed by ensembles such as Sō Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, and Ensemble Laboratorium. As an improviser, he performs electronics with Alvin Curran, Jason Treuting, and Jeff Snyder. His music has been performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, The Roulette, The Stone, and internationally at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw, Zurich’s Tonhalle, and Istanbul’s Babylon. Ergün’s recordings include The Art of the Fluke with Alvin Curran and Sō Percussion’s Cage 100: The Bootleg Series. His first solo composition record, Nana, was released in May 2014 on Carrier Records.

On Wednesday, March 2 at 7:30 pm, two world premieres by Cenk Ergün will be performed by the JACK Quartet in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium. The commission was made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

We reached Cenk Ergün by telephone. [Read more…]