Career
He has so far released five contemporary jazz albums, including solo releases, as part of the contemporary jazz trio On the Lincolnshire, and as part of the Timucin Sahin Quartet and the Timucin Sahin Quintet. Şahin started playing guitar when he was 16 years old. In 1992 began studying jazz guitar with Joe Pass and John Abercombie at Hilversum Conservatory in Rotterdam, Holland.
He went on to study classical composition with Daan Manneke at the Amsterdam Conservatory, and with and George Crumb at the Manhattan School of Music in New New York
He has played and recorded with Randy Brecker, Greg Osby, Robin Eubanks, Kai Eckhardt, Mike Mainieri, Mark Turner, Tony Moreno, Ernst Reizeger, Armando Gola, Donny McCaslin, Tyshawn Sorey, Thomas Morgan, Sean Rickman, Marcel Wierckx and Owen Hart Junior. He has developed his own double necked guitar, on which he combines Indian scales and African rhythms with Western jazz improvisation.
2001: first prize, Dutch Jazz Competition, On the Lincolnshire.
