Erberk Eryilmaz, keyboard

Turkish composer and performer Erberk Eryılmaz has taken place in many important halls of the world such as Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Cuban National Museum of Fine Arts and Washington DC Kennedy Center with his music that aims to carry the energy of traditional music of Anatolia and its surroundings to the concert stage with his creative and dramatic perspective. In 2022, he won a Grammy Award with his producer Judith Sherman for his album "Dances of the Yogurt Maker" and two gold medals in the composer and performer categories at the Global Music Awards.

His works and performances have been broadcast many times on various radio channels such as TRT and National Public Radio in America, and on Performance Today, which has the largest audience in America and reaches approximately 300 radio channels, and his music has been described by the Washington Post as "the energy explosion of a whirling dervish." Eryılmaz's work "Was it the moon or the sun?" will be included on a titanium disc planned to be sent to the Moon in 2023 within the scope of the MoonArts project carried out in cooperation with NASA, Google and the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, and this music will be the first music in the history of the Earth to go to the Moon. The first performance of this work took place in the hangar where the Saturn V, the largest rocket in the history of the Earth, is exhibited at NASA headquarters. As a composer, conductor, pianist and percussionist, he has performed with many important ensembles such as the Presidential Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, European Union Chamber Orchestra, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Gedik Philharmonic, Austin Camerata, Apollo Chamber Players, Carpe Diem, Del Sol and Tesla string quartets, WindSync, ZOFO four-hand duet and Bowen McCauley Dance Company, and with important artists such as Christopher Zimmerman, Andres Cardenes, Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, İsmail Lumanovski and Asım Kuzuluk. Among the awards and competitions Erberk Eryılmaz has won are the "Diemente Honorary Award", first place in the Van Rooy Musical Excellence Competition, the string quartet competition organized by Carnegie Mellon University with his music called Yoğurtçunun Oyun Havaları ve Miniatures Set No. 5, the Harry G. Archer Orchestra Work Competition with his music called Tepki 2 "fikri hür, vinci hür, irfanı hür". In addition to these, he was awarded the BNY Mellon Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award by the BNY Mellon Company for his artistic activities and work in Pittsburgh in 2014.

Eryılmaz studied at the Samsun Municipal Conservatory, Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory, the Hartt School in the USA, Carnegie Mellon University and finally Rice University, where he received his doctorate. Eryılmaz continues his work as a faculty member in the Composition Department at Ankara Music and Fine Arts University.

Sinan Ayyildiz, baglama

Ali Can Oztan, drums

Buğra Kutbay, wind instruments