2 July 20171798Çağrı Sertel’s career in music started with the piano lessons he took when he was 12 years old, and he started writing his own music when he was in high school.
10 April 20171808Hülya Tunçağ is one of the rare people in Turkey who have dedicated her heart to jazz, one who knows the best about the genre and one who keeps it alive.
23 March 20171682Kamil Erdem’s interest in music started at early ages with classical guitar. His interest in jazz increased with time and he started to play bass guitar and double bass.
9 March 20171560Volkan Hürsever is a prominent Turkish double bass player. He used to sing when he was younger, and his friends would like his voice. He took piano lessons when he was three.
5 March 20171537Jülide Özçelik, one of the most prominent jazz vocalists in Turkey, gives concerts both locally and abroad, in addition to recording albums.
10 February 20171706Esra Kayıkçı is a jazz vocalist. She can also play a variety of instruments. She started singing at a very early age, but studied archeology as her college major due to her interest in the field.
9 February 20171595One of the most important jazz doyens in Turkey, Neşet Ruacan, was born in 1948 in Kadıköy, Istanbul. The jazz guitarist, who grew up and still lives in Moda, started playing the harmonica at a very early age.
3 February 20171722İpek Dinç Yüce started singing at a very young age. She says “I would get on top of the bed, grab a hairbrush and give concerts” when talking about this.
27 January 20171856Born in 1970 in Izmir, Volkan Öktem’s interest in music started when he was 7 years old. He started to play with the military orchestra in the officers’ club when he was 11.
22 January 20171875Can Kozlu is a Turkish doyen jazz artist. Born in 1954, music entered Kozlu’s life when he started to take piano lessons at the age of 6.
18 January 20173585Selen Gülün is a composer, pianist, vocalist and teacher. Her father brought home a wooden toy piano when she was little. Her love for the instrument started right away.
8 January 20171565Ece Göksu is a jazz vocalist and composer. She was born to a family of musicians in Ankara and started taking piano lessons when she was 5 years old. She enrolled in the piano department of Hacettepe University State Conservatory when she was 11. She got in a band with the encouragement of her friends and due to her interest in jazz and...
31 December 20161987Bulut Gülen is a jazz musician, composer and teacher. He is one of our most valuable musicians who uses trombone as a solo instrument.
15 December 20161619Elif Çağlar is a jazz vocalist, composer and teacher. She took interest in music at a very early age. She received her degree in jazz composition from the music department of Bilgi University.
6 December 20161563Ercüment Orkut, jazz pianist and composer, was born in 1984 in Istanbul. He started playing at a very early with the piano bought for the household.
20 November 20161641Şenay Lambaoğlu is a rare artist who illuminates her surroundings with her own internal light. She knows what she wants and she does everything in her power to get it. She has to believe in the single comma or the dot in the songs she sings. That’s why her songs feels alive when she sings.
13 November 20161688Ozan Musluoğlu is a jazz double bass player, bassist and composer. He was born in Germany in 1977. His grandmother discovered his interest for music and supported it. She gifted him a bass guitar when he was 16 years old. This was the start of Musluoğlu’s music adventure.
24 October 20161748Şenova Ülker is an esteemed trumpet player and teacher. He is one of those rare artists who combine the freedom and limitless nature of jazz with the discipline and maturity of classical music.
20 October 20161878Sibel Köse is one of the most prominent jazz musicians in Turkey. Music entered her life through the records her sister had brought home. French music was very popular back then. She met Ella Fitzgerald when her sister mistakenly brought her cassette home, and this was how she had first listened to jazz. She listened to that mesmerising...
9 October 20161949Ediz Hafızoğlu was born in Bulgaria. He started playing bağlama and darbuka (traditional instruments) at an early age. His performance on the stage was with the orchestra founded by his grandfather.
27 September 20161893Okay Temiz was born in Istanbul in 1939. It was his mother who introduced music to ‘master’ percussionist and composer Okay Temiz, who is one of the most important representatives of jazz in Turkey. She was also his first teacher. He has lived alone in a forest in Norway for years, and composed most of his pieces there. According to...
19 September 20161716Kağan Yıldız, one of the most important jazz musicians in Turkey, was born in 1980 in Istanbul. He learnt to play the popular songs of the day with the keyboard his father had gifted him when he was only 7 years old. His uncle noticed his talent and prepared him for the conservatory exams. He studied the double bass between the ages...
22 August 20162057According to Önder Focan, a jazz musician should be humble, should listen to the other musicians in the band while playing and respect them. Because a mystery is solved every time you listen to jazz.