Pınar Köksal

Ayşe Pınar Köksal (20 April 1946 – 19 August 2019) was a Turkish composer of Turkish classical music. Life Köksal was born in Adana, and because her father was a civil servant her childhood was spent in different parts of Anatolia. She graduated from Kayseri High School and later studied pharmacy, receiving her diploma from the Private Higher School of Pharmacy in Istanbul. She worked for 13 years as a pharmacist, and she was deputy chair of the board at Pet Holding as well as chair of the board for the Köksal Education Foundation. She was also a member of the Democratic Party Governing Board, and chair of the party’s Art Committee. From 2001 to 2007 she was a member of the Ministry of Justice Penal Institutions and Detention Houses Monitoring Board, a post from which she resigned in April 2007 for reasons of health. She was married to Prof. Dr. Güntekin Köksal and had two daughters, Ayşe and Zeynep, as well as five grandchildren: Kaya, Ege, Melissa, Rauf and Sinan. She died on August 19, 2019, due to complications caused by an operation. a work in the Acemkürdi makam for which she wrote the words as well as the music. Her first lessons in Turkish Art Music came from the late compo