biography

Upon graduating from the Middle East Technical University with a degree in Industrial Engineering, he pursued Composition studies at Bilkent University Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, studying composition with renowned composers and scholars Onur Türkmen and Tolga Yayalar, music theory and counterpoint with Yiğit Aydın, and conducting with Işın Metin.

In 2022, he worked as an orchestra intern, supported by the Erasmus+ program at the Berlin Opera Academy during the OpernFest, with conductors Peter Leonard, Matthew Toogood, Lutz de Veer, and Carlos Sperier focusing both on the administrative and the artistic duties of the festival, bringing important repertoire operas such as Die Zauberflöte, Die Fledermaus, Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi and Hänsel und Gretel to the stage in Berlin.

He has participated in composition masterclasses led by renowned composers such as Beat Furrer, Chaya Czernowin, Pierre Jodlowski, Magnus Lindberg, Karlheinz Essl, Clara Iannotta, Franck Bedrossian, Isabel Mundry, Malin Bång and Klaus Lang at new music festivals such as impuls Festival, Darmstädter Ferienkurse and MIXTUR in Germany, Austria, and Spain.

His music was premiered by performers such as Nina Janssen-Deinzer and Peyee Chen duo, Reverberation Percussion, Krassimir Sterev, Trio Accanto, and members of the Ensemble Musikfabrik, Benjamin Kobler, Dirk Rothbrust, and Dirk Wietheger. Recently, the composer was in collaboration with the SWR Symphony Orchestra as part of the Meisterkurs Orchesterkomposition with his orchestral piece Dämmernacht, premiered in May 2025 by SWR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Lin Liao in Freiburg, Germany.

Currently, the composer is focused on creating drama-driven musical expressions through theatricality and dramaturgy as well as acoustic and electronic elements, multimedia materials, and sound spatialization techniques. Upon graduating from Bilkent University summa cum laude, he is accepted for Master’s of Composition degree under the guidance of Sarah Nemtsov at Mozarteum University Salzburg.