Kerem Görsev


Kerem Görsev is a Turkish jazz pianist and composer.

Early life and education

Kerem Görsev was born on 28 June 1961 in Istanbul. He started his musical education at the age of 6 by enrolling in the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory in 1967. In 1972 he began his studies at the Istanbul University State Conservatory, which continued during the next twelve years.

Musical career

His passion for jazz began during his conservatory studies, and until his first record Hands and Lips was released in 1994, he performed at various jazz clubs with many jazz musicians including Ed Howard, Rabin Kenyata, Doris Troy, Vinnie Night, LaVerne Butler, Allan Harris, Clifford Jarvis, and Harvey Thompson. He has performed in two concerts with the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine at the Eskişehir Festival in 1999.
Between 1994 and 2018 he released 18 records, including internationally acclaimed works like Therapy, which was nominated as a candidate for the Grammy Award under the “Grand Jazz Orchestras” category in 2011.
Kerem Görsev completed records at the Abbey Road Studios in London and the United Recording Corp. in Los Angeles with world-renowned orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Strings, Prague Philharmonic, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic. He collaborated with Grammy-awarded jazz musicians such as Alan Broadbent, Ernie Watts, Joe LaBarbera and also shared the stage with them in numerous concerts and jazz festivals in Turkey. For his Warm Autumn and Meeting Point albums, recorded in New York City between 1998 and 2003, he worked with Russell Gunn, Steve Kirby, Alvester Garnett, Marcus Strickland, Eric Revis and J. D. Allen, and he also performed with those artists across Turkey.
Along with his participation in international jazz festivals such as Marciac, Umbria, Pescara, Bologna, Vilnius, Lviv, Skopje and Baku, he also took the stage in New York City, London, Copenhagen, Münster, Coesfeld, Hamburg, Cologne, Stuttgart and Islamabad.
Kerem Görsev is also known for his research and broadcasting work. Since 1997, he has hosted the “Kerem Görsev’le Jazz” TV show and a series of radio shows, making significant contributions to the promotion and popularization of jazz in Turkey.
During trio performances, Kağan Yıldız and Ferit Odman accompany Kerem Görsev; and the quartet project includes Engin Recepoğulları
. Kerem Görsev performs at three different projects with a trio, quartet and symphonic orchestra.

Discography