ÖMERCAN SAKAR & FRIENDS

02 Ekim Çarş / Oct. 2024 We (21:30-23:50) – scroll down for English

Tamer Temel (ts), Martin Seiler (as), Serkan Özyılmaz (p), Ekin Bilgin (b), Ömercan Şakar (d).

1985 yılında Türkiye’de doğan Ömercan, genç yaşlardan itibaren müziğe ve doğaya büyük bir tutku geliştirdi. Müzikal yolculuğu gitarla başlayıp kısa sürede davula geçiş yaptı. İzmir’de Ayhan Öztoplu ve özellikle Yavuz Darıdere’nin mentörlüğü altında sanat anlayışını geliştirip müzikal yolculuğuna başladı. İtalya’daki 36. Siena Jazz Masterclasses’a burs kazanarak, oradaki eğitimler ve deneyimlerden sonra uluslararası bir yarışmada birinci olarak New York’taki Drummers Collective School’a burs kazandı ve burada Peter Retzlaff ve Ian Froman, ile iki yıllık düzenli eğitimin ardından çalışmalarına Dan Weiss ile devam etti. Mezuniyet sonrası, Ömercan NYC’de birçok müzisyenle sahne alma fırsatı buldu. 2015 yılında Martin Seiler ile birlikte “Psychaudio”yu kurdu ve 2017’de Kabak&Lin Records etiketiyle “Connect” adlı ilk albümlerini çıkardılar.

Türkiye ve ABD’de sahne aldığı isimlerden bazıları; Elvan Arıcı, Kürşat And, Engin Recepoğulları, Dave Allen, Sarp Maden, Serkan Özyılmaz, Tamer Temel, Kağan Yıldız, Baran Say, Onur Puza, Çağıl Kaya, Tolga Bilgin, Halil Çağlar Serin, Ekin Bilgin, Buğra Balcı, İlhan Erşahin, Maurice “Mobetta” Brown, Chris Rob, İbrahim Maalouf, Dave Harrington, Bob Lanzetti, İlhan Erşahin, Matt Clohesy, Joe Fitzgerald, Christian Almiron, Claudio Fasoli, Mario Raja, Marvi La Spina, Bruno Tommaso, Bob Quaranta, Spencer Zahn, Francesco Beccaro, Sebastien Amman, Martin Seiler.

Farklı seslere ve kültürlere kucak açan Ömercan, son yıllarda yerli şaman davulları, Kızılderili flütleri, bambu/ahşap flütler ve handpan gibi enstrümanlara da ilgi duyarak farklı projelerde yer almaya ve tüm bunların yanı sıra, 2014 yılından beri İlhan Erşahin ve Pınar Karpuzoğlu ile birlikte Manhattan daki Nublu 151 ve Nublu Records ile çalışmalarına New York’ta devam ediyor.

Giriş 650.-TL

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Oturma düzeni dinleyicilerimizin 20:30’dan itibaren geliş sırasına göredir.

Rezervasyonlar 21:15’e kadar tutulur.

İki kişilik masalarımız sınırlı sayıdadır. Diğer masalar paylaşımlıdır.

Our online ticket sales application has been terminated as of the beginning of September 2024.

The bookings shall be carried out via telephone or e-mails.

The seating shall be arranged with respect to the order of arrival of the audience starting from 20:30.

Reservations are kept until 21:15 (15 minutes before the start of the concert).

Our tables for two are limited. All the other tables shall be shared.

Drummer, composer based in Brooklyn, NY since 2007. Originally coming from Izmir, Turkey, he started taking up drums by himself at an early age. After taking several private lessons, he started to perform in the music scene in Izmir and Istanbul. He has attended many workshops all over the world with significant musicians including Dan Weiss, Mark Guiliana, Al Foster, Sam Yahel, Doug Weiss, Antonio Sanchez, Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Charlie Persip, Mike Clark, Jim Mola, Mario Raja, Marvi La Spina, BrunoTommaso, Claudio Fasoli, Antonio Zambrini, Seligo Jazz Quartet, Ilaria Patassini, Stefano Cesare, Alessandro Girotto, Fulvio Maras, Ettore Fioravanti, Francesco Petreni, Massimo Manzi, Stefano Zenni. In 2006 Omercan won a scholarship to attend the 36th International Summer Masterclasses of Siena Jazz Festival in Siena, Italy. During his time there, he began to understand contemporary music which is now his current interest. Immediately after Siena, he won the first prize for The Virtual Drummer School’s International Competition, which awarded him with a scholarship for The Drummers Collective School of Music in New York City. There he studied with Ian Froman, Peter Retzlaff, Bob Quaranta, Joe Fitzgerald, Pat Petrillo, Frank Gravis and Fred Klatz . Omercan has performed with Dave Allen, Ibrahim Maalouf, Bob Lanzetti, Ilhan Ersahin, Matt Clohesy, Bob Quaranta, Joe Fitzgerald, Spencer Zahn, Francesco Beccaro, Christian Almiron, Sebastien Amman, Claudio Fasoli, Mario Raja, Marvi La Spina, Bruno Tommaso, Elvan Arici, Keisa Brown Kagan Yildiz, Baran Say, Yavuz Daridere, Tamer Temel, Kursat And, Bugra Balci, Maya Sharpe, Geo Progulakis, Sana Nagano, Harvey Valdes, Vladan Mijatovic, Martin Seiler, Eva Lawitts, Caleb J Mcmahon… After life changing experience at The Collective School, he started to work around the city in various projects and also he had a chance to study privately with one of his legends of all time Dan Weiss in New York City. He has been working on his own project PSYCHAUDIO with Martin Seiler since 2015 which started as jam sessions at the legendary music club Nublu in New York City. Psychaudio is a renegade music collective based in New York City. Lead by Omercan Sakar on drums and Martin Seiler on Saxophone, Psychaudio implements experimental electronics into their acoustic setup of Trumpet, Saxophone, Piano, Bass, and Drums. Their signature sound, dark and brooding as the bowels of a city at night that is in fact anything but asleep, reflects the real New York as well as the personalities of each of the band members. Caleb McMahon on trumpet, Eva Lawitts on bass, and the pianist Vladan Mijatovic comprise the band’s line up of NYC’s forefront music pioneers along with Martin and Omercan. Their debut album Connect has been released online on October 27th 2017, under Kabak&Lin Records.Music.

Charge: 650.-TL