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He was born in Ankara in 1989. In 2009, he started his mathematics education at Ankara University for three years and started playing fretless guitar, leaving his mathematics education in 2012 with the reason that “he could not spare enough time to music”. He started playing the tanbur in 2012 and became the pupil of Murat Salim Tokaç. He met with Cenk Güray in 2011 and worked with him on several subjects -Makam being in the first place- and appeared in concerts. He has participated in numerous concerts and projects with his baglama, fretless guitar, tanbur and voice.

 

He participated to workshops and gave concerts with young and talented musicians from different countries within the scope of Talent Project in 2011 Forde Folk Music Festival in Norway. In 2016, he was awarded with the Achievement Award by a distinguished jury in the Young Performers' Competition held in memory of Tanburi Cemil Bey's 100th Death Anniversary in affiliation with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

 

Between 2016 to 2018, he worked as a Tanbur artist in the Republic of Turkey Ankara State Classical Turkish Music Choir. Deniz Sahin, a graduate of Gazi University Turkish Music Conservatory Instrument Education (Tanbur), gave lecture in the same university during the 2016-2017 education year. He graduated from his master degree in 2019 and still continues his academic career at Ankara Music and Fine Arts University as a Lecturer. He has various music groups as a performer at the same time.

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Deniz Şahin

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