Mehtap Demir
BornArdahan Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationMusician Edit this on Wikidata
Websitehttp://www.mehtapdemir.com/ Edit this on Wikidata

Mehtap Demir (born 1978 in Ardahan) is a singer of Anatolian folk music from Turkey.

Biography

Demir was born in 1978 in Ardahan,[1] near the border with Georgia, and graduated from Boğaziçi University,[2] holds a Ph.D. in Music Anthropology from Yeditepe University.[1] 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.[3]

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.[4] She has performed at the opening of WOMEX in 2012, the Gibraltar Ethnic Music Festival and other world music festivals.[5] 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.[6]

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

References

  1. 1 2 Mehtap Demir. Ahenk Müzik.
  2. ↑ Mehtap Demir. Karnaval.com
  3. ↑ MEHTAP DEMİR. Cafeturc.com
  4. ↑ Akademik Kadro. Istanbul University State Conservatory. (in Turkish)
  5. ↑ MEHTAP DEMİR. y kültür sanat. (in Turkish)
  6. ↑ Biyografi. Mehtap Demir Resmi Sitesi. (in Turkish)
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