SINAN THE ARCHITECT
"Sinan the Architect" (c. 1489/1490 – July 17, 1588) was the chief Ottoman architect (Turkish: mimar)
and civil engineer for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III. He was responsible for
the construction of more than 300 major structures and other more modest projects.His apprentices
would later design the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, Stari Most in Mostar, and help design the Taj
Mahal in the Mughal Empire.
SEDEFKAR MEHMET AGHA
Sedefkar
Mehmed
Agha (about
1540 - 1617) is
recorded as
the Ottoman archi
tect of the Sultan
Ahmed
Mosque (the "Blue
FAZIL SAY
Fazil Say, son of musicologist
Ahmet Say, established a substantial
dual career as a pianist and composer
during the 1990s. As a performer, he
has won numerous competitions and
has performed with some of the
finest orchestras worldwide. He is
also active as a jazz pianist and
regularly performs at international
jazz festivals. His compositions have
been broadly performed and
recorded, and his works are published
by Schott.
He has performed with some of the
world’s great orchestras, including New
York Philharmonic,
theConcertgebouw Orchestra,
the Vienna Symphony Orchestra,
the BBC Philharmonic, and
theOrchestre National de France. His
repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the
contemporary and he has recorded works
by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,
Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky,
andGershwin.
IDIL BIRET
 İdil Biret (born 21
November 1941
in Ankara,Turkey) is
a Turkish concert pianist,In 1995, Biret's recordings of Chopin's
renowned for her
entire oeuvre was awarded the "Grand
interpretations of the Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin"
in Poland. In 2007 she was decorated
Romantic repertoire. with Distinguished Service Order Cavalry Cross by the Polish
From the age of 16,
President Lech Kaczynski for her
Biret played as a soloist contributions to Polish culture with her
recordings and performances of
with the most
distinguished orchestras Chopin's music.
in the world including
the London Symphony,
the Philharmonia,
the London
 Osman Hamdi Bey (1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art
expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is
considered as the pioneer of the museum curator's profession in Turkey. He was the founder of Istanbul
Archaeology Museums and of İstanbul Academy of Fine Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi in Turkish), known
today as the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts.
OSMAN HAMDİ BEY
BEDRI BAYKAM
One of Turkey’s
internationally most
well known artists and
intellectuals, Bedri
Baykam was born in
1957, in Ankara,
Turkey. He started to
paint when he was only
two years old, and has
had several exhibitions
since the age of six in
Bern, Geneva, New
York, Washington,
London, Rome,