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BIO

Ozlem Kaya  was born in Ordu in 1980. At the age of 6 she started to study music and to play music. He graduated from Bolu Anatolian Fine Arts High School where she studied violin, piano, solfege, choir, orchestra, sound education and Turkish Folk Music. She graduated from Marmara University, Atatürk Education Faculty Music Teacher Training Violin Main Art Branch. Special request Foundation Schools, Istek Belde Fine Arts High School violin, Private Kadıköy Fine Arts High School gave violin, choir, orchestra and solfege lessons. Kadikoy Municipality Orchestra and Izmit Chamber Orchestra performed as concertmeister. Between 1998 and 2000, Assoc. Nevin ERACAR and Art Therapy worked while volunteering in the autistic society volunteer sound and movement studies. She participated in the folk dance group of the university in 1999 and the Kafkas Folk Dance Society in Istanbul in 2000 and received the master craftsman certificate of the Caucasian region. In 2003, she performed as a soloist dancer in the Magic You NEY dance group. Between 2005-2008, she danced in the Anatolian Fire Dance Ensemble (Hero NESİROV, Vilademir POLKODOTSEV and Oktay KERESTECİ with 5 years ballet Nesrin TOPKAPI and oriental Tuncay OKYAR with jazz dance with novel and balkan dances and Tunç ÖZŞAKAR). During the 2007-2008 season, Romantika (Türker İNANOĞLU Productions) performed as a dancer and actress in the musical. She performed as a Semazen at the 2008 Davos summit closing events and in 2009 as a performer and performance artist at various festivals abroad. Between 14 and 21 July 2008, she participated as a musician and dancer in the International Istanbul Transit Improvisation Festival under the direction of Julyen Hamilton and Barre Philips.  She travelled to Europe for meeting other musicians and she exchhanged music culture with the musicians from all over the world .Between 2009-2011  She had a violin -viola duo called Duo ZenSin withh Cyprien Busolini from France-Paris and they managed concerts in Turkey and in France . IN 2012 She played a concert with Istanbul Go: Organic Orchestra  for ECOFEST with  Adam Rudolph who is a Usa based composer and conductor .She visited USA and participated NY GO:Organic Orchestra conducted by Adam Rudolph  again during 3 years . She joined to Istanbul Film Music Orchestra as 1st violinist  in September 2012 . She gave a concert with Istanbul Composers Orchestra  which was  directed by Laia Genc . 

In 2016 She managed a duo concert called WOOD&WIRES  with Christian Thome who is a Germany -Cologne based composer and drummer . 

From April 2017 to July 2018 she played in the Orchestra with Turkish Rock Singer called Haluk Levent as his violinist and his dancer and she went on concert tours with him at that duration. 

 however she kept teaching violin and music classes in private colleges in istanbul and she still works as a freelance performing artist , as a violinist, as a dancer and a sertificated massage theraphist ...  In 2014 winter she and her dear friends gathered for an Improvisers orchestra and it turned to a Istanbul Soundpainting Orchestra ,since then she is playing concerts with Istanbul Soundpainting Orchestra as violinist -performer and mover .  

in 2018 she got a Wood Volins Viper from USA , She is the fisrt Wood Violins  Viper Player of Turkey . this amazing violin founded by legendary violinist Mark Wood and Made by Kenny Bosco . Currently she is playing electric violin in several rock music orchestras and playing violin for duos , trios and quartets. She is playing in Caucasian dance company orchestra as well as she is the dancer  of the dance company since 1999 .

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