Emre Dündar is an Istanbul-based composer, pianist, and improviser. Primarily engaged in concert music composing, Dündar composed solo, chamber, orchestral, vocal, and choral pieces. Additionally, he also delivered soundtracks and sound designs for many films as well as composing numerous pieces for a wide range of channels such as theatre, installation, and radio in an international context.

The composer creates works using acoustic and electro-acoustic means and variably utilizes multiple compositional techniques together. The composer decides on how to apply compositional techniques to his pieces in accordance with the aesthetic-rhetoric context that he identities with the creation. In such a sense, his music follows different tendencies varying from polystylism to serialism, hyper-modality to spectralism.

His works have been performed in Turkey, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Russia, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Japan. The relationship between language and music relation is an endless data field for a composer. Dündar spent most of his life in Istanbul, where many languages intersect/collide, mostly within sorrowful and tragic contexts. He collects sonic memories – »language prints« – he gathers from several languages that he has heard throughout his life and incorporates them into his music.

Emre Dündar holds a deep interest in the musical value and counterparts of the act of speaking-telling in music. Therefore he builds his musical language around the notion of »narration«, focusing on ancient rhetorical traditions in particular. He establishes expressive contexts of his works on the basis of different forms taken by the concept of narration during its journey through history. In this sense, poetry and formal problems of poetry have a direct impact on the composer’s musical language.