Gürer Aykal

Virtuoso conductor Gürer Aykal, General Music Director and Principal Conductor of Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra presents concerts regularly at both the Europian and Anatolian sides of Istanbul. Maestro Aykal, the General Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, received his musical education at the Ankara State Conservatory. He studied violin under Necdet Remzi Atak, graduated in 1963; and composition with Adnan Saygun, graduated in 1969. The same year Aykal went to London and studied at Guildhall School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. During his two years in London he studied under a number of prominant conductors as George Hurst and Andre Previn. Subsequently, he studied two years in Italy where he served as assistant to F