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Baha YETKİN
Oud Player & Composer
London
[email protected]
www.bahayetkin.com
+44 7704 907358
He was born in Istanbul in 1984. He started taking courses on tempo, musical notes and theories
from distinguished masters including Sözer Yaşmut at Ministry of National Education, Boğaziçi
Music Foundation in 2000. During that time, he also took oud lessons from Oytun Uçar, an oud
artist at TRT Istanbul Radio. He soon began to perform as accompaniment in several musical
societies. He met Şükrü İnci, a clarinet player at TRT Istanbul Radio during this period, and İnci
remained his most significant teacher, supporter and moral father until his death in 2012.
He, then, continued his oud education with Mustafa Seven, who was the Head of Turkish Classical
Music Department at Edremit Municipality Conservatory at the time. He had the chance to
practice with valuable artists such as İnci Çayırlı, Alâeddin Yavaşça, Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Necati
Çelik and Yurdal Tokcan. Additionally, he met several musicians at the atelier of Ramazan Calay,
an oud luthier, and during their musical conversations, he learned a lot from them. He received
his Western Music and harmony education from Hakan Ali Toker, a pianist and composer.
Together with the zither player Sadık Kavas, he established Aşiyan Music Association in 2003, and
has become the accompaniment and oud teacher at the association. He has participated in several
organizations, concerts, radio and TV programs with the association.
He accompanied many soloists including Yılmaz Morgül, Selami Şahin, Muazzez Abacı, Mustafa
Keser and Zeki Çetin, as well as several TRT vocal artists in concerts in and outside Turkey.
In 2008 he went to Cambridge, UK for language education, and he performed at two instrumental
concerts there, promoting Turkish music and oud.
After his return to Turkey, he arranged and performed musical works for theater plays and
musicals. In 2009-2010 season, the musical "Shakespeare's Seven" with 148 sold-out
performances at Oyun Atölyesi, with the lead actor Haluk Bilginer - a renowned theater performerwas among the most significant events he participated as an oud artist. He was the music director
of the Shakespeare's "12th Night" performed at İş Sanat in 2013 and 2014.
Since 2011, he has been engaging in performances with musicians and dancers from Kalkedon
Flamenco Culture and Arts Association, and he has accompanied Flamenco performances with a
Turkish instrument; oud. He and Dinçer Dedeoğlu, a Flamenco guitarist, prepared a project called
"Fasl-ı Flamenko" for which they selected works with similar harmonic and melodic structure in
traditional and modern Flamenco and Turkish music, and performed such works using Turkish and
Western instruments.
He was the oud artist in the album of Flamenco guitarist, Taylan Polat, released in 2014. He was
invited to Spain for debut concerts. He accompanied Taylan Polat as an oud artist in "Alamar Fest
2014" in Almeria, and two private concerts in Cordoba. Baha Yetkin is the first Turkish oud artist
who has been invited to Spain for Flamenco performance.
In addition to oud, he has been involved in several projects with cumbus, classic fretless guitar and
electro fretless guitar.