Musician & Composer. More than 200 concerts worldwide as ud player with the ensemble SARBAND; concerts with Concerto Köln (Alla Turca) Soloist on numerous Jazz- and Ethno-music projects Musical director and conductor of the FERAHFEZA and EMRE ENSEMBLE Musical adviser and soloist at the 1. Münchner Biennale in association with Hans Werner Henze Composer of various orchestral, instrumental, and vocal works. Recorded various thematic CDs: the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Ottoman music, etc. Awards from the federal television- and broadcasting institution of Turkey TRT Nominated for the cultural award by the Landeshauptstadt München (state capital, Munich) Composed several Film Scores; Collaboration with the ensemble for historical and traditional music by the Cabinet of Cultures (under the leadership of Ahmet Özhan) Concerts and arrangements of works by the composer Eric Satie Concerts, as Musical Director with large Sufi Orchestra (Mevlevi) at, among others, the Münchner Philharmonie Composition and arrangement of arias of Handel for the soprano Edita Gruberova Dolby-Surround 5.1 Production ..Club Markiz.. Solo project and album EX ORIENTE LUX Collaboration with L arte del Mondo (Mozart, Handel, Rossi, and Demantius) Studies and graduation at the FH München Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (Dipl. Ing. graduated Industrial Engineering) Studies of compositions and lute (UD) under Cinuçen. Tanrikorur Studies of theological music (Sufimusic) under Seyyid Nusret Yesilçay Mehmet C. Yesilçay is the director of the Pera Ensemble