Interpreting Anatolian songs that do not need words in an unusual style, Anadolu Quartet Europa was founded in 2023 by musicians living in Berlin.
In its repertory which is in the form of chamber music, there are anonymous melodies of Anatolian folks, ethnic world songs, film musics from Aşık Veysel to Aram Tigran; from Gomidas to Neşet Ertaş... in addition that the arrangements of works which they vocalise being belong to Anadolu Quartet, they sometimes play the works of different composers or arrangers.
Besides solo concerts, Anadolu Quartet has succeeded to affect audiences or listeners by sharing the same stages with musicians such as Mehmet Atlı, Tara Jaff, Sakina Teyna, Şerko Kaniwar, Siawash Shahani and Group Abdal; and at the concert programs they have managed to attract attention by performing improvisation time by time.
Ahmet Tirgil
Ahmet TİRGİL, born in 1982 in Erzurum, completed his primary and secondary education in Samsun. He took folk instrument with three double strings lessons from Ali Özdolap, a retired teacher. He attended Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Music between 1999 and 2000. After one year, he enrolled at Marmara University, Department of Music in 2000. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Marmara University.
Ahmet Tirgil began playing violin at the university in 2000. He continued his violin studies with Olexander Samolyenko who is the chief violinist at Istanbul State Opera and Ballet.
Ahmet Tirgil continued his music studies at Paul Hindemith Music School in Berlin for a while in 2008. He also continued his violin studies with Matthias Leipold.
He returned to Turkey in 2009 and began to live in Dersim after the year 2010. He worked as a music teacher between 2010 - 2017 in Dersim. Ahmet Tirgil has been living in Berlin as a freelance musician and violin teacher since 2017.
During his musical career;
He went on tours with his group, the Metin&Kemal Kahraman Ensemble and Mehmet Atlı, in Turkey and abroad with the purpose of presenting samples of Anatolian Folk Music. He performed with orchestras such as the CRR İstanbul Symphony Orchestra, the Yeditepe University Astare Chamber Orchestra and the Marmara Univesity Academic Orchestra and gave various concerts.
He also made original documentary film music of "Diyarbakır 5 Nolu Penal House" directed by Çayan Demirel and "Hay Vay Waxt" directed by Nezahat Gündoğan.
Dorothée Royez
Dorothée Royez was born in Amiens (Northern France) in 1989 and received her first violin lessons at the age of six. At the Amiens Conservatory, she discovered her love for the orchestral and chamber music repertoire over many years.
After graduating from high school, she took lessons from Pierre-Olivier Queyras and Maud Lovett and steadily improved her technical and musical skills. She completed her bachelor's degree at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart in the class of Prof. Christine Busch After successfully completing her bachelor's degree, she continued her master's degree in the class of Erik Schumann, professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt, and graduated in 2017.
She gained professional orchestral experience with the National Orchestra Mannheim, the Staatskapelle Wiesbaden, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra Bad Brückenau.
In addition to playing in an orchestra, chamber music is of the utmost importance to her and she regularly gives guest performances in Germany and her native France. In September 2022, thanks to the grant from «Neustart Kultur», a new show will be created with the pianist Go Uezono and the artist Ernesto Lucas H.O. A tale of myths and fairy tales with music, drawings and magic!
Dorothée Royez has been living in Berlin as a freelance musician and violin teacher since 2019.
Theresa Burggaller
The violist Theresa Burggaller was born in Berlin in 1998. She received her first piano lessons at the age of five, began playing the violin at the age of seven and soon discovered the warm and dark sound of the viola for herself.
With the viola, Theresa was a junior student at the Julius Stern Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts (with Prof. Jochen Greiner and Prof. Hartmut Rohde) and began her Bachelor's studies there in 2018 in the class of Prof. Hartmut Rohde. Theresa spent one academic year in the Erasmus at the CNSMD Lyon with Françoise Gnéri.
Early on, the young violist discovered her passion for chamber music. She performed with her piano quartet in the foyer of the Berlin Philharmonie and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, among others, and was awarded 1st prize and a special prize with her string sextet at the Chamber Music Competition of the Alice Samter Foundation in Berlin in 2019. Since 2021 Theresa is a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Berlin e.V. association.
Concert tours have taken Theresa across Europe as an orchestral and chamber musician and as a band member, as well as to Africa and Asia.
She received valuable musical impulses at master classes from Prof. Roland Glassl, Ivry Gitlis (chamber music course Musica Mundi 2016), Prof. Eberhard Feltz (Frenswegen Summer Academy 2019 & 2021, and regularly as part of her studies), Prof. Nimrod Guez (2022), Prof. Pauline Sachse (Musique à Flaine 2022) and Anna Krimm, among others.
Besides classical music, Theresa is also dedicated to other styles, especially jazz, as well as traditional styles and improvisation.
Zeynep Akdil
The Turkish cellist Zeynep Akdil received her first cello lessons from Prof. Ümit Isgörür-Izmir. Later she studied at the State Conservatory of Hacettepe University in Ankara with Prof. Dogan Cangal.
After her diploma she moved to Germany and continued her artistic training with Prof. Mathias de Oliveira Pinto and Marcio Carneiro and then her chamber music postgraduate studies with Andreas Arndt (Auryn Quartet).
Various solo and chamber music master classes broadened her musical horizon. Zeynep Akdil has performed both as a soloist and as a chamber musician in numerous concerts and experimental projects around the world.
Since 2018 she has been living as a freelance musician in Berlin.