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Vasconselos in Turkey. He has also performed with flamenco guitarist
Tomatito. He continues touring all over the world. In 2008 he was one of the highlights of the festival Turkey Now and in October he gave concerts in Thessaloniki (Greece) and then in the Netherlands: in Bimhuis Amsterdam and in World Music and Dance Centre, Rotterdam. In 2011 he was at the Baku Jazz Festival in Azerbaijan In 2013 he gave a solo concert in Kiev, Ukraine.
83:“I found that technique before I went to Egypt, but I was still working on it. The Egyptians played the darbuka so well that I could only subsist with my own style,” explains Yıldırım. “The reactions I received in Egypt encouraged me more than ever. The biggest masters of the darbuka were startled by my style, and this was very promising for me. They supported me, they saw me as one of them.”
53:, which allows very quick playing. He was called "Ahmed el Turkî" (Turkish Ahmet) in Egypt and after his journey he became known as "Mısırlı Ahmet" (Ahmet of Egypt) everywhere else. He tours and gives workshops all over the world, has recorded a number of solo albums and many contributions, and 2007 he created a percussion school in Istanbul, drawing musicians of all nationalities.
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After giving numerous workshops all over the world, and seeing the lack of a proper music school for percussion in Turkey, in 2007 he founded the “Galata Rhythm School” in
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In 2003, within the
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After learning the
Turkish style of playing the darbuka, Yıldırım went to France to work individually. There, he started developing the basis of his peculiar technique. He then decided to go to Egypt, home to mythical percussion masters. He states that he was a fairly ordinary player before he went
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Mısırlı Ahmet has appeared in concerts in many countries, including almost all countries in Europe. He considers as highlights of his career the album he recorded with Carlos
Benevant, his collaboration with Anjelika Akbar in the show "Bach al Oriental" and his participation in the concert of Nana
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In 1999 he returned to Egypt and began to work on the “Deholla” (the bigger tabla) in the Sinai Desert. He created a new playing technique on deholla as well. He created the "Sinai ensemble", with which he toured Israel for two months, and then gave two more concerts in
Barcelona. Liking Spain, he
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Turkish musicians in live performances and recordings. He became a member of the Asia Minor rhythmic ensemble in Istanbul and participated in Istanbul's Jazz Festival (1997), and the Salvador Percussion Festival of Bahia, in the same year.
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In 2006 Mısırlı Ahmet was awarded the “Leardership Summit Prize” which is given by
Eduplus annually. At some point, he was the owner of the Mısırlı Ahmet Ritim Atölyesi, a music school, music venue, and restaurant in Istanbul - which closed after a while.
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In 1991 he joined the "Sharkiat" ensemble with which he performed in many tours in Europe (Estonia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy) and the Middle East. In 1992 in Egypt he recorded his first album
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in three different groups divided according to their levels. The approach is different from the usual, and great importance is given to improvisation.
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Mısırlı Ahmet at the Istanbul Jazz Festival, July 2011
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The dZihan & Kamien Orchestra / "Live in Vienna"
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