Hakan Ali Toker

Improvisations, arrangements, compositions by the Turkish pianist, composer Hakan Ali Toker, fusing jazz with classical music and Turkish music and much more...

Toker has been well acclaimed for his outstanding achievements in several fields:

He has brought the level of the piano in Turkish music to a peak never reached before.
See: album "Alla Turca Alla Toker" (2012) and his book "Traditional Turkish Music for Piano".  

He has been praised by the critics for his work in the field of World Music, fusing ethnic elements with jazz and classical music: Albums Sehir Hayatı (2018), Taurus Mountains (2020, Global Music Awards winner) 

He is one of few pianists today who keep the art of improvisation in classical music alive.
See albums: Transformations (2003), Toker Messing Around...with the classics;) (2019 Global Music Awards winner) and album series Classics Deconstructed (2020-2021).

He is the pioneer in the field of microtonal Turkish symphonic music (Turkish Rhapsody, 2022).