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Background information | |
Birth name | Toygar Ali Işıklı |
Born | 16 April 1974 Gölcük, Kocaeli, Turkey |
Genres | Film score |
Occupation(s) | Composer, Music producer, Singer |
Instruments | Bass guitar, piano |
Labels | Arven Records |
Website | www |
Toygar Işıklı (born 16 April 1974 in Gölcük, Kocaeli, Turkey) is a Turkish film score composer, music producer and singer.
He graduated from Gölcük Barbaros Hayrettin High School. He then moved to Istanbul and took his undergraduate major programme of vocal studies in Marmara University. He received his MA degree in composition master programme from Istanbul Technical University MIAM (Center for Advanced Studies in Music). Currently, he is having his postgraduate degree on musicology and music theory at Istanbul Technical University. Toygar Işıklı also studied film scoring in Berklee College of Music. Throughout his education he had the chance to collaborate with renowned composers and academicians such as Hasan Uçarsu, Kamran İnce, Pieter Snapper, David Osbon, Şehvar Beşiroğlu and Nail Yavuzoğlu for his research and work on jazz, 20th century music, classical Turkish music and classical Western music.
He worked with many singers as bass guitarist, arranger and song writer.
The piece he composed for the 1999 earthquake named “Voice of Silence in Gölcük“ was in the top lists of music editors of many well-known websites.