“Dominant among the 'world' voices of contemporary Turkish culture, Hasan Uçarsu is a man of imagination and social conscience, literate and literary, perennially enquiring, his aesthetic and philosophy is crystal-cut.”
Ateş Orga

Hasan Uçarsu was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1965. He studied composition with Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-1991) at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Conservatory of Istanbul, where he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in composition in 1990 and 1992, respectively. He received his PhD degree in composition in May, 1997 at the University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA, under George Crumb and Richard Wernick. Since then he has served as Professor of Composition in Istanbul. He has been getting national and international commissions to create new works by respected musical organizations and establishments. His works have been awarded; performed at highly esteemed international festivals and concerts; released on CD.

His main concern is to create a musical language with a special emphasis on personality and identity issues. While he utilizes novel techniques in this respect, he develops an aesthetic that is based on socio-humanistic and historic reception surrounding the sounds, musics, sensivities and cultures of his geography throughout its present and past.