They gave innumerable concerts in the formations of duo, trio and quartet while they were conttinuing their guitar studiees in Bilkent University. Faculty of Performing Arts, Classical Guitar Department since 1987. Besides the well-known festivals they have participated in, and the tours they have gone abroad. "Anatolia Concert Senes" have played an important role in their professional lives. Throughout their career as classical guitarists, one of their major aims has been to excite the curiosity of people in classical music all over Anatolia. The group has given series of "Classical Guitar" concerts in many regions of Turkey induding the Southeast Turkey tor the first time, and received critical acclaim. The mass media spared great coverage to the concerts they have held in European, Asian and African countries.
The group participated in well-known festivals, some of which are the 12th and the 13th international Istanbul Guitar Festival 1st Bilkent international Anatolian Music Festival, 1997 Yapı Kredi Serial Concerts, 1996 Belfort Music Festival in France.
The group added to their repertoire and performed the premieres of the pieces compesed tıy composers from Turkey and abroad. The rest of the repertoire of the group consists of the their own transcriptions that are included in classical guitar literature.
The Ensemble also gave concerts with the Bilkent, Istanbul, Izmir and Çukurova Symphony Orchestras conducied by Rengim Gökmen, Zbigniew Graca, Andrew Greenwood, Bujor Hoinic and Christian May.
Compositions that were particularly dedicated to the gultarists by Bujor Hoinic and Nejat Başeğmezler made their world premieres by the group accompamed by the Bilkent Academic Symphony Orchestra.
Group members studied under Ahmet Kanneci and Ireneutz Strahocki in Bilkent University. Faculty of Performing Arts, Classical Guitar Department. During their studies in the department they took instructions from master guitarists some of whom are Costa Cotsiolis, Hubert Kappel, Leo Brouwer, Marco Socias, Joseph Henriquez, Roberto Aussel, Paul Gregory. They graduated from the undergraduate and graduate programmes (MA and PhD) with high honour degrees. Now. members of the group are Classical Guitar professors in the department that they graduated from and they continue giving concerts both accompamed by chamber orchestras and as soloist guitarists.
The group members continue their career as Kürşad Terci-Kağan Korad Classical Guitar Duo, performing an authentic repertoire emphasizing Turkish composers, since 2000.
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