Arda Yurdusev
Composer | Audiovisual Artist
As a composer and audiovisual artist, his interests are combining contemporary art music with various musical and theatrical elements though timbre-based sound worlds and audio-visual projects ranging from concert music to interdisciplinary stage works. A key aspect of his artistic output is his music theaters which focus on topics between the spectrum of real life and sci-fi settings with audiovisual and scenic elements. He is also heavily active with his audiovisual works that often result in collaborations with artists from various fields.
The 2025-26 Season kicked of with a concert length audiovisual music theatre production called “ALGORITHMS DO DREAM” within the scope of Musikfestival Bern through a collaboration with director Ludmilla Mercier. Alongside this large scale work, his audiovisual installation project “Quanta” which features Agma Duo in the production phase has started its screening in various venues around Europe. These projects directly followed his latest series from the previous seasons called “Indigo”, which was premiered with the first chapter “Ma” being commissioned by Ensemble TaG Winterthur for their “30 Jahre Ensemble TaG – ein Gesprächskonzert zum Jubiläum”. The series continued with “Öz” which is the “100th Anniversary of Turkish Republic Commission” by Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, “Ryu” which was an ensemble piece commissioned by Ensemble Proton Bern within the scope of “Protonwerk 13” and “Skye” which was a commission by Aventurin Quartett for string quartet and electronics. In the coming seasons, a major project is his concert length audiovisual music theatre piece, “G.O.A.T. Protocol” to be toured within Germany and Switzerland starting from spring 2027.
One of the highlights from the past seasons was the collaborative concert long audiovisual piece “NeuroDrive” for ensemble, live electronics, visuals and lights, which was premiered in Grosse Halle in Kulturzentrum Reitschule in Bern. Some more of his recent stage works can be mentioned as his concert long musiktheater “C-AML”, an audiovisual installation based on text based algorithmic language generation titled “Chaplin Prints” and “underneath the pieces…” for flute and puzzle which was featured within the scope of Musikfestival Bern with the commission of ArtConnection. Some notable concerts from the past include his string quartet “Senri (II)” with Arditti Quartet and his Seyyah concept pieces; his concerto for pan flute and orchestra “Seyyah I” that was premiered by Matthijs Koene and Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, ”Seyyah Trio" with ensemble XX. jahrhundert , “Seyyah III” with Cikada and “Seyyah Trilogy” with Black Pencil Ensemble.
He has worked with ensembles such as Arditti Quartet, Klangforum Wien, Cikada, Ensemble Proton Bern, Ensemble TaG Winterthur, Black Pencil Ensemble, ensemble XX. Janrhundert, Collegium Novum Zurich, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, NK Ensemble and Hezarfen Ensemble. He is pursuing his doctorate research in Freiburg Bern Graduate School for Artistic Research, supervised by Nathalie Meidhof and Simon Steen-Andersen. He holds a B.A. degree in Theory and Composition from Bilkent University Faculty of Music and Performing Arts with Yiğit Aydın and an M.A. degree from Hochschule der Künste Bern in Music Composition with Simon Steen-Andersen and Xavier Dayer. During various workshops, he had private lectures with well-known composers such as Mark Andre, Michael Beil, Stefano Gervasoni, Pierre Jodlowski, Klaus Lang, Ken Ueno, Matthew Shlomowitz to name a few. Arda Yurdusev is based in Bern, Switzerland.
For detailed CV please contact the artist at ardayurdusev@gmail.com