June 8, 2009

Bios Part III: Alper Alsan (keyboards)


Born in 1972, Alper attended the Yamaha Music School in Istanbul under the supervision of Melih Kibar - one of the legendary Turkish music producers. His group Bagdat Avenue won the Roxy Music Awards in 2000 with Winner and Jury Performance Awards for the first and so far the last time in the history of the competition.

Since then, Alper worked on different projects rangin from covers of B-side hits of famous musicians such as David Bowie, NIN and Prince for solo piano and vocal to Peri - an innovative quartet with two guitarists.