Cosku Turhan Quartet

Since 1996, music has been Cosku’s inner soul that transforms his emotions into notes, rhythms, and melodies. Through music, he has been able to translate his inner world and write his own melodic stories with passion and harmony. Studying piano while earning his undergraduate degree in graphic design helped him integrate his musical talents with artistic capability, thus triggering his right brain to be even more creative and productive.

When Cosku first listened to jazz masters like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Aydin Esen, John Coltrane, and Charlie Hayden, he was only 12-years-old and living in Turkey. Growing up in a culturally and musically rich region, he has been exposed to both western and eastern music and influenced by various musicians, harmonies, genres, tunes, and ethnic melodies. At university, he founded his first jazz band and performed at many festivals. Since then, multi-instrumentalist Cosku Turhan, has been composing, constantly…