About
Amsterdam based clarinetist and composer Oğuz Büyükberber’s work merges contemporary composition, jazz and influences from his Turkish background. His activities as a modular synthesizer artist is often presented under his alter ego artist name OX Barber.
His body of work includes over 60 albums including releases on ECM and Blue Note, a method book published by Donemus, explaining his own approach to generating coherent pitch content, exhibitions of his visual art, university lectures in USA, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia and Turkey, as well as many commissions he received to compose ensemble music as well as electro-acoustic and audio-visual pieces.
Büyükberber got his masters degree at Amsterdam Conservatory, where he studied bass clarinet with Harry Sparnaay, and took composition lessons from Theo Loevendie, Also holding another degree in fine arts from Mimar Sinan University, he incorporates his own visual art in his music work.
Composing and Improvising in a cutting edge avant-garde setting is where he feels most at home. Be it all acoustic, all electronic or anything in between