SINAN C SAVASKAN (b. 1954) is a composer of orchestral, chamber and performance-art related contemporary music.

He works and lives in London.

His music has been commissioned and performed in over twenty countries by some of the foremost performers of contemporary music, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Harle and Myrha Saxophone Quartet, the Lontano Ensemble, the SEM Orchestra - New York/Petr Kotik, the Balanescu String Quartet, the Gemini Ensemble, the Smith Quartet, Tim Brady, Sydney Alpha Ensemble, Trio Basso - Cologne, Yvar Mikhashoff, MusICA series of the Institute of Contemporary Arts/London, Martin Ball, Contemporary Arts Ensemble/London, Cambridge New Music Players and Tokyo Alpha Ensemble, and a selection of prominent theatre companies and directors.

Traditional Cambridge Greek Play, in 2004 featured Savaskan as Composer and Music Director in Oedipus Rex

He was the composer of the title track of the London Musicians Collective's first recording in 1981.

He won the 1988 Dio Fund Award for Composition with his quartet for saxophones, The Street - originally commissioned and premiered by John Harle with his Myrha Saxophone Quartet.

He was a winner of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Composers' Forum commission. The resulting work, his Symphony No. 2 'The Age of Analysis' was premiered by the orchestra under Martyn Brabbins on 12 XII1997 and broadcast the following February on BBC Radio 3.

American Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Award for  SINAN SAVASKAN:
Each year, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts invites distinguished artists and arts professionals to propose on a confidential basis exceptional individuals, performing groups, and artists' collectives whom they feel deserve and would benefit at this point in their careers from an unrestricted grant in support of their work.
In 1999 the Directors of the Foundation voted to award the grant to S. Savaskan.

He is Head of Department for Academic Music at Westminster School, London.
Many of his students over the years have become award winners and have gone onto successful careers in music, particularly in composition.

He holds a doctorate from University of York.

Sinan Savaskan is a member of the Executive Committee of The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. He is a regular judge for the British Composer Awards.
He is a composer member of the PRS/MCPS, London.

 

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