COMPOSERS AND PERFORMERS

SERKİS EFENDİ (UDî BÜYÜK SERKİS)

(? – 1913)

Armenian musician, lute player. He was born in Yenikapı, Istanbul. He worked as lute (ud) player in the group of Tatyos Efendi, and died in Yedikule at young age.

He composed this Hicâz Orta Aksak Şarkı: Cemâlin benziyor, aya. (Öztuna 235a; nota; TMA, II, 232; Ermenîce Yıllık, İst 1931, 209; K. Pamukcıyan, yazılı bilgi).