COMPOSER | SOUND ARTIST | DRUMMER
Fırtına Kıral is a composer, sound artist and drummer based between The Hague and Istanbul.
Recent projects include music for the Louis Vuitton Foundation via Brawhaus Paris; production of Rift, a soundtrack for a sci-fi universe; The Portrait, Meditations and a Distant Land, a suite for a large ensemble; a spatial composition for 12 metronomes and a chamber ensemble titled Meditations no. II, commissioned works for ViV Woodwind Quintet and KonCon Saxophone Ensemble, a solo piano work for the 58th Spring Festival in The Hague, original music for a jewellery campaign by Evren Kayar and Invisible Cities, an immersive composition for Balkan Karisman's video art presented in Istanbul and Barcelona.
Born in Istanbul in 1993, Kıral studied Composition, Production and Sound Technologies at Kingston University London and Istanbul Bilgi University, and holds a Master's degree in Jazz Composition from the Royal Conservatoire Den Haag, where he was awarded the Excellence Scholarship and Corendon Funds. He is endorsed by Istanbul Agop Cymbals and Vater Drumsticks.
