Emre Sener

Emre Şener is a young and sought after composer, conductor and performer from Istanbul, Turkey. His intense yet delicate music evolves narratively where many opposites overlap and develop simultaneously. He is currently based in London.

He is the winner of the Ateneo de la Laguna Composition Award (Spain), The Alan Bush Prize (UK), Ragazze e Ragazzi Salvemini 1990 Composition Award (Italy) and a recipient of the Ministry of Culture Choir Composition Award (Turkey). His works are performed regularly in Europe alongside recent premieres in the Auditorio de Tenerife and St. Martin in the Fields. A selection of his music is published by Universal Edition Wien. He has worked alongside prominent musicians like Emmanuel Coppey, Giorgos Panagiotidis, Clara Orif, Tak-Nara Ensemble, MotoContrario Ensemble, Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Manuel Zurria and more. He has also worked extensively in the area where theater meets contemporary music, working intimately with the director Çağla Karslıoğlu and producing a staged production with Nanine Linning. He has been supported by Talent Unlimited since 2021.

He founded the London Contemporary soloists in 2022 and he served as its artistic director ever since. In 2021 he was the guest artist to Paris Youth Society of music.

As a composer he studied with Rubens Askenar in the Royal Academy of Music - London with various scholarships. In 2022, he attended the composition class of Salvatore Sciarrino in CDM San Michele, also receiving tuition from Marco Momi. He was a composer in the VIPA festival in Spain where he worked with Stefano Gervasoni. In 2023, he was a participant in Akademie für Neue Musik, Boswil with for which he had performances taking place in Switzerland under the baton of Szymon Bywalec. He has also attended Festival Contrasti, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse and Catedra Falla Composition Studio with Fabian Panisello.

As a conductor he held a scholarship to study with Sandro Gorli in Italy. Aside from being the conductor of London Contemporary Soloists, he has conducted the Paris Youth Music Society, Divertimento Ensemble and many other miscellaneous formations from symphony orchestras to soloist ensembles.

As a performer Emre takes stage performing live electronics, on the violin and on the traditional Turkish instrument Bağlama.

His recent commissions include works for the Royal Academy of Music commemorating its bicentenary with the ‘200 Pieces’ project, by Corti Chiese e Cortili for a piece for solo flute, by Talent Unlimited for a Double Concerto for Piano and Violin and for the festival ‘Les Journées de Pont ar Gler’ in Brittany.