Bülent Arel
Born: 23rd April 1919, Istanbul, Turkey
Died: 24th November 1990, New York, United States
Nationality: Turkish
Bülent Arel was a Turkish-born composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music.
He was born in Istanbul, and studied composition at the Ankara Conservatory and sound engineering in Paris. He later taught at the Ankara Conservatory, established the Helikon Society of Contemporary Arts, and served as the first music director of Radio Ankara from 1951 to 1959. He was also a painter and sculptor, and several of his works are in the permanent collection of the Turkish National Gallery.
In 1959, the Rockefeller Foundation invited him to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
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