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Tayfun Erdem's lyrics & chords
Tayfun grew up in Istanbul, a cosmopolitan harbour city with nearly 15 million inhabitants. A pupil of Cemla Reschid Rey(1904-1985) - one of the founders of the `modern` music in Turkey and himself a pupil of the French composer Gabriel Faure and the piano virtuoso Marguerite Long - in piano, harmony and composotion. Simultaneously completing his BA in Economics at the "Bosphorus Unversity" in Istanbul. Later studying composition at the School of Music in Indiana University, Bloomington/USA (1980-82) with the Chilean composer Juan-Orrego Salas ...read more