Haluk Kurosman

Haluk Kurosman (1 March, 1975, Istanbul) is a successful Turkish music producer and co-founder (together with Hadi Elazzi) of GRGDN, a music production - management company and record label; producing, mixing and mastering the albums of successful young Turkish artists. Kurosman started to play the guitar at the age of 15 and had his own band, where he was also the frontman. By the age of 23 he decided to move "backstage" and work as a producer. [ [http://www.zene.hu/cikkek/cikk.php?id=9186 A törökök zseniális producere ("The Turks' Genial Producer")] - interview for zene.hu magazine] He is a graduate of Deutsche Schule Istanbul and Marmara University in business administration. Later he went to Canada, where he attended Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology (OIART) and graduated in 1999 as "perhaps the most brilliant student to attend OIART since its inception". [ [http://www.oiart.org/admission/finances_awards.html OIART Awards] ] Thus the institute has founded the "Kurosman Award" to be given to the most talented students.

Besides being a producer, Haluk Kurosman also contributed to some of the albums as a musician (guitars, keyboards, underworks) and as a co-songwriter-lyricist.

Works

Haluk Kurosman's works include the album of maNga, that reached gold status [ [http://www.mu-yap.org/news.asp?NID=158 maNga altin ödülü (gold status)] ] in Turkey as well as Emre Aydın's "Afili Yalnızlık" album that is currently a smash hit [Emre Aydın has received more than 19 awards in one year] in Turkey. The full list of Kurosman's works is as follows:

References

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/halukkurosman Haluk Kurosman Official Myspace]
* [http://www.grgdn.com GRGDN Official Site]