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  • Events
    • Future Events
    • Past Events
    • News
    • Calendar
  • Learn Turkish
    • Turkish Speaks Here workshops
    • Academic Calendar
    • Spring Term Timetable
    • Turkish Course A1
    • Turkish Course A2
    • Turkish Course B1
    • Turkish Course B2
    • Turkish Course C1
    • Turkish Course C2
    • Turkish Course for Advanced Level
    • Conversation Club (B2-C1-C2)
  • Short Courses
    • New Short Courses
    • Past Short Courses
  • Exhibitions
    • Turkish Community Art Exhibition
      • 1st Turkish Community Art Exhibition
      • 2nd Turkish Community Art Exhibition
      • 3rd Turkish Community Art Exhibition
  • Projects
    • Cut Short, Live Long
    • London Craft Week
    • Istanbul Art Trip 2019
    • Istanbul Art Trip 2018
    • Karagöz & Hacivat
    • A Pinch of Anatolia
    • Turkish Film Week
      • 2nd London Turkish Film Week
      • Calendar and Bookings
Jan Hendrickse

Jan Hendrickse

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Jan Hendrickse is an performer and composer. He studied flute at the Royal College of Music, holds an MA in sound art from University of the Arts London (LCC) and is currently completing a PhD in composition. He has been teaching at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama since 1991 and is a visiting lecturer at a number of other Higher education institutions including Trinity Laban Conservatoire. He has studied Turkish Ney with Kudsi Erguner, Ömer Erdogdular and Murat Ferhat Yegül.

His own work often crosses boundaries of social practice, performance, installation and composition and has been commissioned by Töne festival, Deptford-X, Soundwaves, CHROMA ensemble. He has developed projects for the Barbican Centre, the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Proms, amongst others, as well as leading education and performance projects in Tanzania, Gambia, Thailand, Gaza and the West Bank.

As a performer, he has appeared with a wide range of artists and ensembles including Howard Shore, Ornette Coleman, Nitin Sawhney, David Toop, Mark Fell, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Ulster Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. As a traditional woodwind specialist he is in demand for film soundtrack recordings, and features as a soloist on The Lord of the Rings, The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, Troy, Two Brothers, Beloved, The Cell, Chocolat, The Truth about Charlie, Four Feathers and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory amongst many others.

Jan has been the presenter of the BBC Internet broadcast journeyThe musical Nomad which researched music and culture in Central Asia in the post-soviet period. His research into collaborative practice Trans-cultural Arts Practice is published in The Reflective Conservatoire (Ashgate/GSMD) and he has been a research associate at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he teaches MMus students. His research interests include freely improvised music, site-specific and socially-engaged practices.

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(Turkish: Yunus Emre Enstitüsü) was established as a foundation in 2007 with a specific aim to promote the history, culture and language of Turkey.  It was named after the famous 14th century Poet Yunus Emre.

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