In Classical music, in Flamenco and Jazz there are countless excellent guitarists. However it is rare to find a guitarist that excels in all three directions. What is yet absolutely new in the music scene is to come across someone who combines all these and interprets them through his own aura and personal artistic style. In Wolfgang Gerhard’s music, classical music meets the joy and livelihood of Flamenco going in a jazzy direction harmonywise and inspirationwise.

The Oslo Born Turkish Jazz musician Serkan Karaman was trained as a classical guitarist throughout his childhood. He spent his early youth in Istanbul where he got to be the student of Rene Macaroglu at Pera School of Music and Fine Arts and that was his first encounter with Jazz. Soon after,

Serkan Karaman brings together the ornamentation of Flamenco, the air of Nordic jazz and the rhythmic sensation of rock and melodical progressivity of Turkish classical music in his new project: SK2

Finally, Turkish instrumental music scene has found its most atmospheric sound, a hybrid style that unites different musical influences with “taste” and the best of it, it does all that without designing it ahead, Serkan Karaman merely performs the “hybrid in himself”, in the moment, in his music and the result is a delightful musical journey of influences and articulation. Having released his first album “Between Orient and Occident” years ago, Karaman keeps on exploring this path, however, now with an ever growing emphasis on the “music made in the moment” , hence, improvisation. They improvise simultaneously and in great harmony with the pianist Wolfgang Gerhard and at times this makes one think of the “beraber taksim”s (collective improvisation), a highly appreciated improvisational form in Turkish Classical Music.

Hottest add to Oriental Media Network’s artist roster is guitarist Serkan Karaman, an extraordinary virtuose on the Al Di Meolian track. Serkan Karaman composes his own music