Nağme Yarkın

As a performer and composer, she is known for her works combining Anatolian Music and Jazz Music. Nağme Yarkın is an Istanbul based musician who was born into a musician family. She started  to music by playing piano at the age of 3.
She graduated from the Composition Department at Istanbul University State Conservatory with Master's and Doctorate degrees. With her traditional instrument, kemenche from Istanbul, she not only introduces traditional Turkish music to the world, but also makes innovations in the field of jazz fusion by playing her own compositions and arrangements in her concerts and albums, with the Yarkın Duo and Quartet groups she established with her brother, pianist Baturay Yarkın. By combining these two music genres, they have performed at various festivals, concerts and gave workshops in many countries from Europe to America. Since 2017, they have been giving concerts within Silkroad GMW, founded by Yo-Yo Ma. In 2018, they gave two workshops at Berklee College of Music.
            Yarkın had concerts with Andre Rieu as part of his world tour in 2013 and 2014.
In 2022, she released the polyphonic Istanbul kemençe album “Künh” consisting of her own compositions, as the first in the world. Alsa Dr. Yarkın has been working as an Assoc. Prof. at Istanbul University State Conservatory since 2012. She continues her studies at the University of Alberta in Canada as an invited professor for the 2022-2023 semester.