Ardahan
Ardahan ( ka, არტაანი, tr; ; Russian: Ардаган) is a city in northeastern Turkey, near the Georgian border. It is the seat of Ardahan Province and Ardahan District.Anatolian folk music from
Turkey
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.
Biography
Demir was born in 1978 in
Ardahan
Ardahan ( ka, არტაანი, tr; ; Russian: Ардаган) is a city in northeastern Turkey, near the Georgian border. It is the seat of Ardahan Province and Ardahan District.Mehtap Demir Ahenk Müzik. near the border with
Georgia
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, and graduated from
Boğaziçi University
Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...
Yeditepe University
Yeditepe University () is a private non-profit university situated in Istanbul, Turkey. Established by the Istanbul Education and Culture Foundation ('', İSTEK Vakfı'') in 1996, Yeditepe University now claims to be the largest of the 74 priva ...
. During her doctoral studies, she moved to
Israel
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for 6 months and studied the emigration and interaction of the cross-border music, of which the
mizrahi music
Mizrahi music ( ' , "Eastern music/Oriental music") refers to a music genre in Israel that combines elements from the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe; and is mostly performed by Israelis of Mizrahi Jewish descent. It is usually sung i ...
can be considered one of the most recent examples. She is a renowned
kemane
Kemane (Macedonian: ќемане, ; ) is a bowed string instrument traditionally used in the Balkans and Anatolia. It is the Macedonian and southern Serbian version of the kemenche, it is very similar to the violin or viola and related to the Bul ...
player.
She has been known by her focus on Anatolian folk music. She participated in the French-Greek-Israeli-German
documentary film
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Roza Eskenazi
Roza Eskenazi (mid-1890s – 2 December 1980, Greek: Ρόζα Εσκενάζυ) was a Jewish-Greek dancer and singer of ''rebetiko'', Greek folk music, Kanto and Turkish folk music born in Istanbul, whose recording and stage career extended fro ...
. She is director of the Ethnomusicology and Folklore Department of the
Istanbul University State Conservatory The Istanbul University State Conservatory (Turkish language, Turkish: ''İstanbul Üniversitesi Devlet Konservatuarı'') is a Public university, public Music school, conservatory affiliated with Istanbul University, specializing in music, theatre, ...
. She has performed at the opening of
WOMEX
WOMEX (short for Worldwide Music Expo) is an international world music support and development project based in Berlin
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world music
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festivals. 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.Biyografi Mehtap Demir Resmi Sitesi.