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Composer and conductor Aytuğ Ülgen creates works across opera, ballet, musical theatre, symphonic music, and film scoring. Awarded the 2015 Uğur Mumcu Art Award as "Conductor of the Year," Ülgen draws on his experience as an active conductor and his background as a musicologist. His works and orchestrations have been performed across four continents.

Composer and conductor Aytuğ Ülgen carries out his creative work across opera, ballet, musical theatre, symphonic music, and film scoring. Drawing on his experience as an active conductor and his background as a musicologist, Ülgen is recognized for dramaturgically driven works centered on large-scale dramatic structures, vivid orchestral color, and the relationship between music and narrative. With extensive knowledge of repertoire from the Baroque era to the present day and a command of diverse musical styles, he brings historical depth into dialogue with a contemporary stage sensibility; his works and arrangements have been performed across four continents in concert halls, opera houses, and theatres, and featured in recording projects.

Awarded the 2015 Uğur Mumcu Art Award as "Conductor of the Year," Ülgen's body of work includes numerous chamber music pieces, symphonic works and arrangements, children's songs, film and television scores, as well as large-scale stage productions, special projects, and original works created for national and international institutions. Regarded as one of the most prolific and accomplished figures working in Türkiye in the creation, restoration, orchestration, and contemporary staging of opera, ballet, and musical theatre repertoire, Ülgen devotes a significant part of his creative activity to this field.