Artist
Turkey
Influences:
Mediterranean
, Middle Eastern
, Asian
Genres:
uyghur turkish folk style,
turkish folk,
tradItIonal greek song wIth turkIsh lyrcs wrItten by mehtap demIr,
tradItIonal Istanbul song,
composed song by mehtap demIr wIth the turkIsh maqam of hIjazkar,
turksh maqam nIhavend wIth greek lyrcs,
ethnic world folk,
an
IN THE CHARTS
3 times in the Global Top 40
TRACKS
PHOTOS
ABOUT
Dr. Mehtap Demir Ethnomusiclologits- Turkish Folk Music Singer- Kemane Player
PhD degree:
2011-YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY ANTHROPOLOGY
“Culturel İnteraction and Migration: Turkish Music Practices in İsrael”
Master degree:
2006- ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY STATE CONCERVATORY MUSICOLOGY
“Music and Social Interaction”
Bachelor degree:
1999-ITU. TURKISH MUSIC STATE CONCERVATORY
“Aesthetic issues of Women in Turkish Folk Music”
Cd –Albums
SİNG MEHTAP (FOLK MUSİCS OF TURKEY)
http://www.esenshop.com/detail.aspx?id=70317
The Symphony of Turkish Folk Music
http://www.esenshop.com/detail.aspx?id=47083
Aquaphonic
Medidation And Relaxation With Kemane
http://www.esenshop.com/detail.aspx?id=47153
Lullabies with Anatolian Melodies
http://www.esenshop.com/detail.aspx?id=48323
My Sweet Canary 2011. Adama Music Israel/Greece/Turkey/USA
Story of Roza Eskenazi and Rebetiko Music
www.mysweetcanary.com
About Dr. Mehtap Demir
The listeners said:
"The melancholy, hilarity, love, labor and patiences of those who live at the land of Anatolia meet in her colorful voice."
"People who listen to her songs make a journey to their own roots."
" Her love to music derives from the seeds and soils of Anatolia."
Mehtap Demir was born in 1978 in Ardahan, Turkey and graduated from Istanbul Technical University State Conservatory. Then, she had her master’s degree in Musicology from Istanbul University and her PhD in Music Anthropology from Yeditepe University. Mehtap stayed in Israel for one year during her fieldwork and studied the emigration and interaction of the cross-border music.
In 2010, she took a major part in a musical documentary feature named My Sweet Canary, which then happened to be an international project with a series of musical concerts in many countries in Europe & USA. Since then, Mehtap has been performing Rembetiko music, which is the creator of Aegean Culture with musicians from Israel and Greece who took part with her in My Sweet Canary project. They took place and performed at the prestigious music festivals all over the world such as SXSW and WOMEX.
Mehtap is proud of sharing the same stage with the world-famous female vocals such as Yasmin Levy, Savinna Yantaou, Mor Karbasi & Giota Negka and representing the musical culture of Turkey by attending to the most popular music festivals in countries like Greece, France, Germany, Belgium, Israel, USA and so on.
Mehtap is also a lecturer in Istanbul University and offers courses on world music cultures, traditional folk music repertoire and kemane. She has been continuing her academic life as an ethno-musician and kemane player by attending the international conferences, workshops and symposiums in different countries. Moreover, it should be stated that Mehtap is one of the few unique female kemane players in Turkey.
PhD degree:
2011-YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY ANTHROPOLOGY
“Culturel İnteraction and Migration: Turkish Music Practices in İsrael”
Master degree:
2006- ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY STATE CONCERVATORY MUSICOLOGY
“Music and Social Interaction”
Bachelor degree:
1999-ITU. TURKISH MUSIC STATE CONCERVATORY
“Aesthetic issues of Women in Turkish Folk Music”
Cd –Albums
SİNG MEHTAP (FOLK MUSİCS OF TURKEY)
http://www.esenshop.com/detail.aspx?id=70317
The Symphony of Turkish Folk Music
http://www.esenshop.com/detail.aspx?id=47083
Aquaphonic
Medidation And Relaxation With Kemane
http://www.esenshop.com/detail.aspx?id=47153
Lullabies with Anatolian Melodies
http://www.esenshop.com/detail.aspx?id=48323
My Sweet Canary 2011. Adama Music Israel/Greece/Turkey/USA
Story of Roza Eskenazi and Rebetiko Music
www.mysweetcanary.com
About Dr. Mehtap Demir
The listeners said:
"The melancholy, hilarity, love, labor and patiences of those who live at the land of Anatolia meet in her colorful voice."
"People who listen to her songs make a journey to their own roots."
" Her love to music derives from the seeds and soils of Anatolia."
Mehtap Demir was born in 1978 in Ardahan, Turkey and graduated from Istanbul Technical University State Conservatory. Then, she had her master’s degree in Musicology from Istanbul University and her PhD in Music Anthropology from Yeditepe University. Mehtap stayed in Israel for one year during her fieldwork and studied the emigration and interaction of the cross-border music.
In 2010, she took a major part in a musical documentary feature named My Sweet Canary, which then happened to be an international project with a series of musical concerts in many countries in Europe & USA. Since then, Mehtap has been performing Rembetiko music, which is the creator of Aegean Culture with musicians from Israel and Greece who took part with her in My Sweet Canary project. They took place and performed at the prestigious music festivals all over the world such as SXSW and WOMEX.
Mehtap is proud of sharing the same stage with the world-famous female vocals such as Yasmin Levy, Savinna Yantaou, Mor Karbasi & Giota Negka and representing the musical culture of Turkey by attending to the most popular music festivals in countries like Greece, France, Germany, Belgium, Israel, USA and so on.
Mehtap is also a lecturer in Istanbul University and offers courses on world music cultures, traditional folk music repertoire and kemane. She has been continuing her academic life as an ethno-musician and kemane player by attending the international conferences, workshops and symposiums in different countries. Moreover, it should be stated that Mehtap is one of the few unique female kemane players in Turkey.
