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Sarpay Özçağatay
Özçağatay has performed countless concerts at prestigious jazz and world music venues, and at music festivals with Grammy Award–winning artists and internationally acclaimed musicians from all over the world. As a recording artist, he has performed on many albums as both a leader and a sideman, as well as being a voting member of the Recording Academy.
Awards
2014 - National Flute Association "Jazz Solist" competition winning award 2011-2012 Billboard Magazine Scholarship Award Given Through Berklee College of Music 2011 Berklee College of Music Performance Division Award
Gear
Miyazawa Flutes Applied Microphone Technology Ton Kooiman Thumb Rest
Tags
Sarpay Ozcagatay: Unexpectable
by Edward Blanco
Born in Ankara, Turkey, Sarpay Ozcagatay is a flautist and EWI player who feels that the flute does not have the respect in the jazz world that it should. Accordingly, Ozcagatay is on a mission to change the perception of the flute as an accompanying instrument and believes the flute is as much a lead instrument as the jazz saxophone or trumpet. His first album as leader, Unexpectable (perhaps a reference to the correct spelling of unacceptable"), is an unexpectedly ...
read moreTake Five With Sarpay Ozcagatay
by Sarpay Özçağatay "SharpEye"
Meet Sarpay Özçağatay:Sarpay Özçağatay born in Ankara, Turkey, is a talented flutist, EWI player, composer, performer, and bandleader. Sarpay has performed with many jazz musicians and legends such as Ron Carter, Kevin Eubanks, David Fiuczynski. Terri Lyne Carrington, Eric Gould, Greg Osby, Steve Turre, and many more. He studied classical flute performance at Hacettepe University State Conservatory in 2002. After his studies at the conservatory he became more interested in jazz. He attended jazz ...
read more“Unexpectable” is an exciting album for close listening, or for a great sound at your party ! – Barbara Siesel (The Flute View)
Fascinating New York ! – Sabah Newspaper (Major Turkish Newspaper)
The Turkish “Pan” of Jazz ! – Star Newspaper (Major Turkish Newspaper)
Primary Instrument
Flute
Location
Boston
Credentials/Background
Berklee College of Music National Flute Association Jazz Empowers Private Instructor For Lessons message to below [email protected] SharpEyeMusic.com
Clinic/Workshop Information
www.sharpeyemusic.com