Ismail Altunsaray
İstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey | INDIE
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Ismail Altunsaray has completed his undergraduate studies at the Istanbul Technical University, State Conservatory of Turkish Music. He has also completed a graduate degree in Turkish Music at the Institute of Social Sciences of Haliç University. He worked as an instructor at the Istanbul Technical University, State Conservatory of Turkish Music between the years 2009-2011. He took a very active role in many concerts and events organized by university both on the national and the international level. He worked as a Saz player at Turkish Radio Television Istanbul Radio for Turkish Folk Music and the Turkish Folk Music Choir of the Turkish Ministry of Culture. He also played in many television and radio shows. He has shared the same stage in many concerts with well known Turkish artists such as Erkan Ogur, Erdal Erzincan, Cengiz Özkan.
Ismail has brought together the Flamenco and Bozlak musical traditions and played many concerts that attracted international atention with Paco Pena, Miguel Ortega and Ye Ye De Cadiz. He has performed a number of solo concerts in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011 within the Istanbul Technical University Baglama Festival, a festival that is attended by masters of Baglama such as Arif Sag, Musa Eroglu, Erkan Ogur and Erdal Erzincan.
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