Melih Çelenk

Melih Çelenk
Born	1995 Elazığ, Türkiye
Occupation(s)	Computer engineer, composer, author
Instrument(s)	Piano

Melih Çelenk (born 1995 in Elazığ, Türkiye) is a Turkish computer engineer, author and composer.

Authoring Career

Melih Çelenk started writing magazines at the age of 8. He wrote his first stories when he was 10 and started to write poems before the high school. He published his first book of poetry called "Diyelim ki Buzdolabı" in 2016. He published his second book consisting of opinion articles in 2018. The book which he collected his aphorisms was published in 2020. In the same year he published the book of poetry that he wrote mostly in Poland.

Music Career

Melih Çelenk took his piano education from Sevgi Sadayeva in 2010. He wrote his first 22 compositions in this year. Later, he took an accelerated theoretical training from composer İlkay Bora Öder and pianist Cihan İnçukur. Due to his intensity outside of music, he tended to improvise and shared piano improvisations on Instagram for a long time. He has a channel called Dosolrela on Youtube.

Software Development Career

When he was 12 he started to write websites. After one year he used Visual Basic to code desktop applications. He graduated from Sakarya University, department of computer engineering.

Books

• Diyelim ki Buzdolabı (2016)
• Küçük Bir Gece Kitabı (2018)
• Aforizmalar (2020)
• Dilfigar (2020)

Compositions

Pieces for Piano & Orchestra

• Last Leaf of Hope (Finished: August 2013)

Pieces for Piano (Four Hands)

• Earthquake City (Finished: January 2012)

Pieces for Piano

• Grief (Premiere: AKM Perge Hall, June 2011)
• Bagatelle
• Prairie (Amadeus Music School, 2010)
• Mazurka
• Ocean (Adem Tolunay Anatolian High School, Antalya, May 2011)
• Dignitaries of the Ottomans (AKM Aspendos Hall, Antalya, March 2012)
• Do Diyez
• Sunday Morning (Premiere: Murat Paşa Cultural Center, Antalya, December 2011)
• Window and the City (Premiere: AKM Perge Hall, Antalya, June 2012)
• About A Planet That Doesn't Need to be Mentioned (Akdeniz University Atatürk Conference Hall, Antalya, May 2017)
• Rebirth
• Beatrice
• Queen’s Waltz
• Separation
• Hope
• Renunciation
• Heartbroken
• Anatolian Consolation
• Oh Darling
• Purple Hyacinth
• Waltz in İstanbul
• The Bride
• The Late Freedom
• The Waggish March
• Reconstruction
• Centennial March
• Seclusion
• Persistence
• Requiem for Khojaly
• Ballad of Elazığ
• The March of the Turkish Doctors
• Despite Everything
• Keystone

Pieces for Piano & Violin

• Albatross
• Nocturne
• Fa Diyez

Pieces for Quartet

• Requiem for a Snail: Johnny
• Memories (For 2 violins version now. Composing for quartet.)

Pieces for Orchestra

• Travel
• New Heart
• 1 Day on Dirt Road
• Breath of the Sun
• On White Clouds
• Captive

Songs for Voice&Piano

• Love
• My Birthday