Mehtap Demir
Biography
Demir was born in 1978 in Ardahan,[http://ahenkmuzik.com.tr/urun/mehtap-demir-yeni-album-yakinda/ Mehtap Demir]. Ahenk Müzik. near the border with Georgia, and graduated from Boğaziçi University,[http://karnaval.com/sanatcilar/mehtap-demir-14253 Mehtap Demir]. Karnaval.com holds a Ph.D. in Music Anthropology from Yeditepe University. During her doctoral studies, she moved to Israel for 6 months and studied the emigration and interaction of the cross-border music, of which the mizrahi music can be considered one of the most recent examples. She is a renowned kemane player.[http://cafeturc.com/artist/mehtap-demir/?lang=en MEHTAP DEMİR]. Cafeturc.com
She has been known by her focus on Anatolian folk music. She participated in the French-Greek-Israeli-German documentary film My Sweet Canary in 2011, about the life of Jewish-Greek rebetikó singer Roza Eskenazi. She is director of the Ethnomusicology and Folklore Department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory.[http://konservatuvar.istanbul.edu.tr/?p=6876 Akademik Kadro]. Istanbul University State Conservatory. {{in lang|tr}} She has performed at the opening of WOMEX in 2012, the Gibraltar Ethnic Music Festival and other world music festivals.[http://www.ykultursanat.com/kategori/mehtap-demir-biyografi MEHTAP DEMİR]. y kültür sanat. {{in lang|tr}} In her most recent album, Le parfum d'asie mineure, she recorded traditional Anatolian songs that were found on rare records from the first decades of the 20th century.[http://www.mehtapdemir.com/biyografi Biyografi]. Mehtap Demir Resmi Sitesi. {{in lang|tr}}
= Discography =
- Türkülerimiz Söylenir Üç Kıtada (2000)
- Türkülerin Senfonisi (2008)
- Kemane ile Meditasyon (2009)
- Anadolu Ezgileriyle Ninniler (2009)
- My Sweet Canary – Soundtrack (2011)
- Mehtap (2012)
- Le parfum d'asie mineure (2016)
= Filmography =
- My Sweet Canary (2011)
References
= External links =
- [http://www.mehtapdemir.com Official web site of Mehtap Demir]
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- {{youtube|MSKwVDQe-h4|Trailer of "My Sweet Canary"}}
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Category:Turkish women singers
Category:20th-century Turkish folk musicians