Descripción de Can Atilla - Aşk-ı Hürrem (The Love Story of Hurrem Sultan):

Hürrem Sultan; Her Imperial Majesty The Empress consort Hürrem Sultan of the Ottoman Empire or Karima, known to Europeans informally as simply Roxelana (c. 1510 - April 18, 1558) was a legal wife of Süleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire. Hürrem, Sultan well-known both in modern Turkey and in the West, and is the subject of many artistic works. She has inspired paintings, musical works (including Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 63), an opera by Denys Sichynsky, a ballet, plays, and several novels written mainly in Ukrainian, but also in English, French, and German. According to late-16th-century and early-17th-century sources, such as the Polish poet Samuel Twardowski, who researched the subject in Turkey, Hürrem was seemingly born to a father who was a Ukrainian. In 2007, Muslims in Mariupol, a port city in Ukraine, opened a mosque to honor Roxelana Turkish Composer Can Atilla was born in Ankara in 1969. In 1980, he started to attend the violin class of Hacettepe University, Ankara State Conservatory, and graduated with BA degree in 1990. In Turkey, he participated in numerous competition, festival and music organizations as composer, arranger and conductor. His debut solo album, "Bilinçaltı" was released in 1992 and his second solo album, "Waves of Wheels" was released in 1994 in Turkey, and in United Kingdom and Europe by Midas Records Ltd. In 1995, his third solo album, "Efsaneler", and in 1996, the symphonic album version of the play score, "Kuvayi Milliye Destanı", were released. With this work, he was awarded "Avni Dilligil Best Original Play Score". In 1999, his album "AVE" was released in the Netherlands by Eat Records. In 1997, he prepared the original scores of the movie "Bir Erkeğin Anatomisi", a film by Yavuz Ozkan. For Ankara State Theatre, he prepared the original play scores of the plays "Büyük Misafir" in 1996, "4. Murat" in 1997, "Kanli Dugun", "Ya Devlet Basa Ya Kuzgun Lese" and "Liola" in 1998, "Goya", "Balerin", "Ask Oldurur" and "Kanaviçe" in 1999, and "Tanrılar Erkek Olunca", "Abelard ve Heloise" and "Andora" in 2000. He has prepared numerous scores within a period of more than ten years for the dramas and documentaries made for television channels, and currently continues to prepare.His essays were published in many art periodicals under the title "Visual Music". At the beginning of 1999, he made a contract with "Eat Records" in the Netherlands, and efforts for releasing his albums world-wide were commenced. Within the same year, he released his soundtrack album "ALBATROS" in Turkey. He prepared the scores of the film "Kuruluş - Osmancık", which was re-edited as a movie for the 700th anniversary of the Ottoman Empire from the TRT television series directed by Yücel Cakmakli. The scores of this movie was prepared, for the first time in Turkey, using "Multitrack Orchestral Dubbing" method, a method used for recording movie scores in Hollywood and Europe. For this method, in which electronic instruments are combined with actual instruments, a mixed orchestra was formed for the live recordings and this orchestra was conducted by Can Atilla. Can Atilla currently continues his works with many young musicians at POeM Music, his studio in Ankara.