Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (born September 24, 1974) is a Grammy nominated Turkish-American composer and CMES Harvard University fellow (2013–15) who is a jazz pianist and singer that also performs a number of Near and Middle Eastern instruments as well as the keyboardless synthesizer Continuum Fingerboard and the SANLIKOL Renaissance 17, a digital microtonal keyboard designed and conceived by himself. The Boston Globe calls Sanlıkol's music "colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of feeling" and "not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized", "...and he (Sanlıkol) is another who could play decisive role in music’s future in the world." He is a full-time faculty member at the New England Conservatory (NEC). He is also the director of the Intercultural Institute at NEC and the project director/curator of Nilüfer Municipality Dr. Hüseyin Parkan Sanlıkol Musical Instruments Museum.

Lessons from Nightingales: Songs of Sufi Mysteries - 2025-08-15T00:00:00.000000Z

7 Shades of Melancholia - 2025-04-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Çalıcı Mehterler (The Musician Mehters) - 2024-03-14T00:00:00.000000Z

Turkish Hipster - 2023-07-21T00:00:00.000000Z

An Elegant Ritual - 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000000Z

The Rise Up: Stories of Strife, Struggle and Inspiration - 2020-08-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Abraham: Music for Three Faiths (feat. Jazzaar Global Ensemble & Billy Cobham) - 2019-08-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Resolution - 2016-08-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Kamran İnce: Passion & Dreams - 2016-06-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Dreams And Prayers - 2014-09-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Whatsnext - 2014-03-31T00:00:00.000000Z

To Be Or Not To Be - 2013-09-17T00:00:00.000000Z

A Sacred Music Celebration: Greek Orthodoxy and Turkish Sufism - 2011-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

The Language of Birds - 2011-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

For You the World, for Us the Roses - 2011-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

A Story of the City: Constantinople, Istanbul - 2011-07-27T00:00:00.000000Z

Kıbrıs'ın Sesi - 2007-12-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Asitane - 2003-06-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Pickin' a Shuffle Alla Turca - 2026-02-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Talk About a Turkish Blues - 2024-07-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Estarabim (Radio Edit) - 2023-07-14T00:00:00.000000Z

Estarabim - 2023-07-07T00:00:00.000000Z

A Capoeira Turca (Baia Havası) - 2023-06-23T00:00:00.000000Z

A Gentleman Of Istanbul - 2023-04-07T00:00:00.000000Z

(This Is) the Boston Beat - 2021-04-06T00:00:00.000000Z

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