Umut Fırtına Kıral is a Netherlands based composer, musician, and sound artist whose work spans concert music, sound design and interdisciplinary collaborations. Working across acoustic and electronic sound worlds, he creates compositions for ensembles, solo instruments, and immersive audiovisual projects, while also developing original music and sound design for films, theatre, dance, fashion and visual arts.
His recent projects include music for the Louis Vuitton Foundation through Brawhaus Paris, the soundtrack Rift for a science-fiction universe, and The Portrait, Meditations and a Distant Land, a suite for large ensemble. His concert works include Meditations No. II, a spatial composition for twelve metronomes and chamber ensemble, alongside commissioned works for ViV Woodwind Quintet and KonCon Saxophone Ensemble. His work also extends to fashion and visual art, with original music for a jewellery campaign by Evren Kayar and Invisible Cities, an immersive composition accompanying Balkan Karisman’s video art, presented in Istanbul and Barcelona.
Born in Istanbul in 1993, he studied Composition, Production and Sound Technologies at Kingston University Londonand Istanbul Bilgi University, before completing a master’s degree in Jazz Composition at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. During his studies, he received the Excellence Scholarship and support from Corendon Funds. His practice brings together a diverse musical background and an interest in spatial composition, sonic experimentation and the expressive possibilities of sound across different artistic contexts.
