Sefik Büyükyüksel

Sefik Büyükyüksel (b. 1944), joined the Turkish army after graduating from Yale. After military service he was an executive at Turkish Airlines, until appointed General Manager of Commercial Affairs of the Association of European Airlines in the early 1980s. Married to Turkish pianist Idil Biret, he became increasingly frustrated with marketing practices in the recording industry, and left the aviation industry to manage his wife’s career, resulting in an extraordinary, far-ranging discography that will delight music lovers for generations to come.