2023-10 – Live Music & Creative Consultant

• Project-based consultancy in live music programming, artist booking, curation, and creative strategy for venues, festivals, event organizers, brands, public institutions, and universities across Türkiye and Europe.
• Festival and venue programming, from concept development to artist booking and execution.
• Creative project development, event production, and tour management.
• Artist relations, advancing, and stakeholder coordination.
• Guest lectures, masterclasses, conference talks, panel moderation, jury memberships, and educational collaborations with universities and international music organizations.
• Music media and editorial work
• Music curation for radio, brands, and events

2024-07 –  Booking and Programming Executive
Pozitif Müzik A.Ş., İstanbul

• Programming and booking international live music events for Babylon (700 standing pax), Volkswagen Arena (6,200 seated and standing cap), Parkorman Open Air Venue (10,000 pax), Bomontiada (3,500 pax), and multiple festivals.

2021-12 – 2023-09  Senior Programming Specialist

Zorlu Performing Arts Center, İstanbul

• Booking, programming, advancing international live music events.
• Programming of Sónar Istanbul and MIX Festival.
• Project Coordinator for Sónar Istanbul’s +D that focuses on digital media art, electronic music, and creative industries.
• Project Coordinator of Digilogue Summit 2022 that focuses on creativity, technology and sustainability in digital arts.
• Previously managed bookings and advancings for local live music events, theaters and musicals.

2019-09 – 2021-12  Booker | Assistant Promoter

Beşiktaş Kültür Merkezi A.Ş., İstanbul

• Assisted international event bookings and organizations
• Assisted the film department on clearing music copyrights, film sales; followed up legal contracts for movies and TV series, facilitated connection between the producers and the legal team.
• Worked at a TV series produced for a national channel (Star TV), Sol Yanım, as an assistant to the Project Coordinator and Executive Producer. Dealt with artist contracts and provided communication between the actors, managers and legal department.
• Programming, back and front of house operations and production of live music events as well as theater and comedy shows at Maximum Uniq. Support across all aspects of Event Production including artist bookings, event schedules, contracts, staffing, advancing, pre & post show documentation.

2018-05 – 2019-04     Broadcast Support Specialist

Karnaval Media Group, İstanbul

• Hosted and produced the radio show 'Jazzville' on JoyJazz Radio for three years.
• Oversaw the broadcast of three digital radios and edited shows and podcasts.
• Checked and censored songs before their stream on Virgin Radio Turkey for explicit content, supported the Head of Content Department for new projects.
• Content writer of the podcast 'Kadın' (‘Woman’) that aimed to raise awareness on violence towards women in Turkey.

2020-10 – 2023-06 MSc in Music: Ethnomusicology

İstanbul Technical University's MIAM

• Coursework in Ethnomusicology and Music Business
• Graduated with 3,65 GPA

2018-09 – 2019-05 Certificate Program: Jazz Studies

Bahçeşehir University - İstanbul

• Coursework in Jazz Vocals, Jazz History and Jazz Theory

2014-09 – 2018-07 Bachelor of Arts: International Relations

İstanbul Bilgi University

• Received %100 OSYM Scholarship
• Earned High Honors Degree
• Graduated with 3,72 GPA
• Coursework in International Affairs, Political Theory and Cultural Studies

2016-09 – 2017-07 Erasmus Exchange Program: International Affairs

Universiteit Leiden – The Netherlands

• Coursework in American Studies, Politics and Economy of South and South East Asia, Dutch Studies, Jazz History, International Administration and Comparative Analysis of Political Systems

Master of Ceremony / Presenter · Project Basis 
November 2023 – Present

Executive Assistant at International Cooperation Platform (ICP-UIP) · Freelance

July 2022 – November 2024

Executive calendar management, simultaneous interpretation, and translation for the founder of the ICP-UIP, conference organization and planning for Bosphorus Summit.