Orchestral Conductor - Producer
“and the whole is greater than the part”
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About
Kemal Oksal embraces various styles and genres –movie score, world music, pop, rock, jazz, opera, and orchestral– and has taken part in several concerts and recordings as a conductor, arranger, and producer. Mr. Oksal has served Assistant Conductor & Arranger of Cinema Symphony Orchestra in Istanbul, Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra in Boston, MA and guest conductor for the NCO (new conductors orchestra in Manhattan). He is also founder of the Mulm Productions –a music production company to help talented classical, opera, and jazz musicians.
Kemal is an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music where he teaches advanced music production and conducting.
Succeeding as a principal tubist for more than ten years at Istanbul State Opera & Ballet Orchestra, he comprehends his desire for orchestral conducting. His private conducting studies were with Orhan Salliel, Francisco Noya, Svetoslav Borisov and Mark Powell. Oksal's conducting debut was with Cinema Symphony Orchestra in 2013, a soundtrack orchestra based in Istanbul.
Kemal Oksal studied tuba performance at Istanbul University (BM, MM), contemporary writing-production & conducting at Berklee College of Music (AD) and orchestral conducting at Aaron Copland School of Music (MM).
Besides than serving as an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Mr. Oksal is actively working as a conductor-arranger-producer in NYC - Boston - Istanbul.