User:Ali Yunus Gencer
General information
Country of origin: Turkey
Contributor since: 2021-10-28
Works with editions by this editor: 1 (see list)
Contact information
e-mail: a.yunusgencer 
gmail.com
Education
DMA - University of Memphis. MM - University of Memphis. BM - Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. (Erasmus: Royal Northern College of Music)
Background
Yunus Gencer (DMA) has been an active lecturer in areas such as ear training, piano, music appreciation, music history, counterpoint, harmony, composition and form analysis since 2007; teaching students from diverse backgrounds and age groups.
He co-wrote A Saygunian Approach to the Study of Harmony, published by Pan. His article, Ottoman Influences on European Music was published in Volume 10 and Volume 14 of the CMR Project of The University of Birmingham. He also presented his paper on the same topic at the Intercultural Music Conference 2 in 2018. Gencer composed music for Unvoiced Diaries and Quarantine Circumstances projects of Gedik Sanat. He received the Smit Composition Award in 2015 and his compositions were performed in various stages in Istanbul, Essen, Boston, and Memphis.
In 2021, he published Disentangled; a non-music related book which contains his poems, essays and aphorisms.
Gencer started his music education in high school at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (MSFAU) State Conservatory (Istanbul). After graduating from high school with high honours, he was accepted to study as a double major student in composition and music theory at the same university. He finished the four year program, of the two majors, in three years and graduated summa cum laude in 2010. After his graduation, he became a lecturer in MSFAU and at the same time continued studying as a post-graduate composition student at the same university. In 2011, he studied in Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) as an ERASMUS exchange student. Following the acceptance of his Full Assistantship application to the University of Memphis (TN, USA), he continued his education in the United States. He earned his Master’s degree in December 2013, and his DMA in 2016. Since then, he taught music at Mimar Sinan FAU, Marmara University, Okan University, and TEVITOL.
Throughout his education, he received guidance from esteemed composers and scholars such as Volkan Barut, Adam Gorb, Ozkan Manav, Gary Carpenter, Hasan Ucarsu, Kamran Ince, and John Baur.