Emir Sinan Ökmen
Film composer
Emir's work explores how music interacts with art, memory and identity.
Correspondences
Inspired by Baudelaire’s vision of hidden connections between nature, art, and emotion, 'Correspondences' is an hour-long concert that is curated, organised and presented by Emir Sinan Ökmen, which takes place at Guildhall Art Gallery on 21 November, 2025.From the quiet contemplation of the Baroque to the bold textures of the Early Modern era, the programme invites listeners to experience music as an echo of the visual and emotional worlds that surround it.Performed by two string quartets from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, each segment is framed by a brief reflection linking the music to artworks within the Guildhall Art Gallery, revealing how artistic forms converse across time.Correspondences invites the audience into a living dialogue between sound and image, history and feeling, reason and reverie.
About
Rooted in Istanbul’s layered sonic past, Emir works across orchestral and choral writing, musical theatre, rock and jazz, developing a musical language that moves fluidly between genres and eras.His recent score for the animation Planet Toad, a psychedelic rock score, will premiere at the London International Animation Festival on 30 November, followed by a screening at the Toronto Global Film Festival.Emir’s music has been performed at Somerset House and the Barbican Centre, including work with the Guildhall Session Orchestra, and with filmmakers from Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. His solo piano score for an early 20th-century Japanese silent film was presented at Barbican Cinema in June 2025, and his work has also featured at a sustainability symposium at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
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