Kamran Ince

Kamran Ince fascinates me precisely because of how unlikely his origin story sounds. A Turkish-American composer born in Glendive, Montana, equally at home as pianist, cellist and professor, he has gathered the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and more. I am always pulled toward artists who carry two cultures inside them, because that tension usually produces music you cannot get anywhere else. The big-sky emptiness of Montana and the modal color of Turkish tradition living in one mind is a combination I want to hear worked out in sound. He feels like a composer worth sitting down with properly rather than sampling, and I intend to.

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Name (English)

Kamran Ince

Name (Japanese)

カムラン・インス

Reading

かむらん・いんす

Born

May 6, 1960 (age 66)

Origin

Glendive, Montana, United States

Occupation

composer / pianist / cellist / university teacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rat

University

Oberlin College

Awards & achievements

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Rome Prize

• Official sitehttps://www.kamranince.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamran%20Ince
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11294792

Tags

• Montana
• composer
• pianist
• cellist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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