Asst.Prof.Dr., Fırat Altun, was born in Diyarbakır, Turkiye, and began his formal musical education at the Diyarbakır Anatolian Fine Arts High School, where he cultivated his foundational skills in music. His academic journey continued with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education, during which he engaged deeply with the polyphonic traditions of Turkish music, advanced his technical and performance skills on the cello, and developed a rigorous understanding of choral conducting and aural skills. After completing his undergraduate studies, Fırat Altun furthered his academic pursuits with a Master’s degree in Music Education. His scholarly path then led him to the University of York at the United Kingdom, where he was awarded a competitive scholarship to undertake doctoral research at a leading institution in Music. His doctoral studies encompassed interdisciplinary research in music cognition and affective response, advanced compositional techniques, and ear training. In addition to his academic endeavors, he actively contributed as a cellist to various performances with symphony and chamber orchestras. Fırat Altun’s research interests lie at the intersection of music perception and cognition, composition, and performance, with a particular focus on the cognitive and cultural dynamics of musical structure. His work contributes to a deeper understanding of how music is perceived, composed, and performed across different cultural contexts.
Affiliation: Harran University, Education Faculty, Fine Art Department, Şanlıurfa, Turkiye. Email: firataltun@harran.edu.tr ORCID: 0000-0002-2435-4909
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Firat-Altun
Academiaedu: https://york.academia.edu/FıratALTUN
GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eAhY16YAAAAJ&hl=tr 

Alicia MARAVELIA:   Although a recognized Egyptologist (PhD in the University of Limoges, 2004) and Astrophysicist (PhD in the University of Athens, 1997), with an initial BSc in Physics (University of Thessaloniki, 1988), Founder and Director of the Hellenic Institute of Egyptology, Co-Ordinator of 4 Research Projects and prolific author of more than 150 papers, books and reviews, she is also very fond of Music and the History of Music. She has studied Byzantine Music in Thessaloniki and Athens and wrote a book of Propria (Akolouthia) to honor the memory of Saint Alice/Alexandra of Russia (the Passion-Bearer). She specializes in the enharmonion genos of the Oktoechos and is very interested in the relations and interactions of the Arabic and Ottoman Maqam  with the various modes (echoi) of Byzantine Music. The Hellenic Institute of Egyptology is a Research and Educational Institute, based on the principles of Humanism, Interdisciplinarity and International Synergies.    

Prof. Dr. Erhan Özden was born in Erzurum, Turkiye. He graduated from the Department of Music Sciences at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Atatürk University in 2001. He taught courses in "Turkish Music Theory" and "Ney" at the same faculty. During this period, he performed ney (a Turkish wind instrument) at the TRT Erzurum Radio Turkish Music Choir. He completed his doctoral studies at the Institute of Social Sciences, Marmara University. He participated in various concerts and academic activities both domestically and abroad (Germany, Denmark, France, Georgia, England, Sweden, Italy, Kosovo, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Egypt, Romania, Greece). He taught various courses in the fields of "Music in Ottoman Archives" and "Turkish Music Theory" at Istanbul University, Department of Turkish Religious Music. He was involved in the music curriculum development work carried out by the Board of Education and Discipline. A prolific artist and academic, he has many albums and books. He is a faculty member at Istanbul University State Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music. Prof. Dr. Erhan Özden, who was appointed as the Rector of Ankara University of Music and Fine Arts by the Presidential Decision No. 2022/229, published in the Official Gazette No. 31855 on June 3, 2022, has been continuing his duties since that date. Email: erhan.ozden@mgu.edu.tr ORCID: 0000-0002-2768-6204

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Dr. Mehmet Alan completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Music Education at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Education, in 1986. He earned his master's degree in 2012 in the Department of Turkish Music at Haliç University, Institute of Social Sciences. He completed his Proficiency in Art education in 2018 in the Department of Turkish Music at Haliç University, Institute of Social Sciences. His areas of study include Turkish Folk Music, Turkish Art Music, Vocal Music, Jazz Music, Music History, Ethnomusicology, Music Education and Music Teaching Methods, and Contemporary Art. Selected academic works include:

Alan, M. (2024). The examination of the Kurdî (Phrygian) mode structure in Turkish music children's songs. Turkish Music Journal, 4(1), 57-64.
Alan, M., and Gürgen, İ. (2023). Contribution of folk songs to the language skills of primary school students within the scope of qualified teacher training programs. Journal for the Interdisciplinary Art and Education, 4(2), 83-90.
Alan, M. (2023). The examination of the workbooks on "bağlama" teaching within the scope of systematic exercises. 2nd International Rast Music Congress (IRMC), Antalya. January 14-15th. e-ISBN Proceedings Book: 978-605-06640-8-9.
Alan, M. (2021). BONA Turkish Music Scales-Sequencing Exercises. Yurtrenkleri Publishing, Ankara. ISBN:978-975-8303-90-8. (Published in 2021).
Institution: Anadolu University, Faculty of Education, Department of Basic Education, Music Teaching, Eskişehir, Turkey
E-mail: mehmeta@anadolu.edu.tr
ORCID: 0000-0002-1821-4870

Krenar Doli was born in Gjakova on 14.02.1985. He graduated the primary and secondary school in his birthplace. In 2007, he completed his bachelor studies at the Academy of Arts, Faculty of Music, Branch of Musicology in Tirana. In 2014 he completed the Master of Science at the Center for Albanological Studies at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Art Study in Ethnology-Folklore department, with focus on Ethnomusicology. In 2021 he completed Doctoral Degree, at Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, at the Institute of Social Sciences (Turkish Folklore program) in Ankara. He works at The Institute of Albanology in Prishtina, Branch of Folklore, Section of Ethno-musicology. He deals with different musical practices of the Balkan area, with music and with multilateral connections in the artistic and socio-cultural spheres.

So far, he has published the following writings:

1.“Muzika në reflekset e kohës”, përmbledhje punimesh, “Erpoprint”, Gjakovë, 2007. (“Music in the Reflections of Time”, a collection of publications. “Erpoprint”, Gjakova, 2007.
2.“Gjakova brenda muzikës”, monografi, “Erpoprint”, Gjakovë, 2010. (“Gjakova inside music”, monograph. “Erpoprint”, Gjakova, 2010.)
3.“Dasma në qytetin e Gjakovës”. monografi, Instituti Albanologjik, Prishtinë, 2015. (“Wedding in the town of Gjakova”. Monograph, The Institute of Albanology, Prishtina, 2015.
4. “Tradita e muzikës sufiste në Kosovë”, monografi, Instituti Albanologjik, Prishtinë, 2022. (“Tradition sufi music in Kosova”), Monograph, The Institute of Albanology, Prishtina, 2022.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ralf M. Jäger (Ph.D. 1993: “Turkish Art Music and its Manuscript Sources from the 19. Century”, Habilitation 1999: “Europe and the Ottoman Empire in Music, ca. 1500 to 1800”) is Professor of Ethnomusicology and European Music History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

He started his academic career in 1999 as visiting professor of Musicology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. From 2000 until 2004 he deputized the chair of Musicology at the WWU Münster and from 2005 to 2009 he was Lecturer and Senior Researcher both at the Musicological Department of WWU Münster (since 2008 Professor) and University of Music "Franz Liszt" in Weimar. From 2009 to 2011 Prof. Jäger held the Chair of Ethnomusicology at the Department of Music Research, Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Würzburg. He has been lecturing in Göttingen, Istanbul, Mainz, Saarbrücken, Zürich and Athens.

Since 1995 Jäger is head of the Dissertationsmeldestelle (Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology) of Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM); 2000 to 2004 he was vice-president of the German national committee of the International Council for Traditional Music; 2002 to 2005 Jäger acted as deputy chair of the study group Ethnomusicology (German Musicological Society). He directed the projects of the GfM in the Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Musikwissenschaft (ViFa Musik).

In 2005 Prof. Jäger was awarded with the “Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler Research Grant” by the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.

Since 2015 Prof. Jäger is director of the international and interdisciplinary DFG (German Research Foundation) long-term research project “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO): Critical Editions of Music Manuscripts from the Middle East” which is based in Münster, Bonn, and Istanbul.

Herry Rizal Djahwasi holder Phd music performance UPSI, Malaysia. Currently, He is Senior lecturer in music faculty of Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia which specialist in classical guitar, musicology and composition. The journal article publication encompassed Integrated Approach for Classical Guitar Method (author, 2020), Artistic Research: Artistic as Research vs Artistic as Method (author, 2021), An Analysis of Artistic form and Musical Perspective of Romantic Era Music (author, 2021), Writing Artistic Research Report on Western Classical Music Performance: The Important Aspects to Be Voiced Out by A Performer Researcher (author, 2022), Experimental Theatre as a Method to Identify the Early Signs of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (co-author, 2020) and AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE BOWING TECHNIQUES IN PERFORMING BACH CELLO SUITE NO.2 TRANPOSED TO A MINOR FOR DOUBLE BASS (co-author, 2023).

Ibraeva Kamarsulu Ershatovna is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Music Education and Choreography at the Institute of Arts, Culture and Sports, Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University (since 2017). She previously served as Associate Professor in the same department (2010), Head of the Department of Musical Instruments at Kazakh State Women’s Pedagogical University (2008–2010), and Associate Professor at the Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts (2001–2008). She began her career as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Musical Instruments at Zhansugurov ZhSU (1991–1998). Dr. Ibraeva earned her degree in piano at the Kurmangazy State Conservatory in Almaty and studied foreign languages at Abylaikhan KazUMOiWL. She holds a Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences degree and the academic title of Associate Professor (2004). A recipient of the “Best University Teacher of 2016” award, she has undertaken professional development in the USA and the UK, including courses in English language teaching and interactive learning environments. Her research interests focus on music pedagogy, teacher training, and the revival of national consciousness and cultural values in higher arts education. She has authored monographs, textbooks, and numerous articles published in journals indexed by Scopus and Web of Science, and has led projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan.

Pooyan Azadeh was born in Iran in 1979. He has been playing the piano since his childhood, directed choirs since he was twelve and can already look back on ten years of university teaching experience. He studied classical European and classical Persian music (BA), as well as piano (MA) at the Teheran Academy of Arts and participated in master classes with Prof. Paul Gulda at the Bayreuth Festival of Young Artists in Germany.

His performance as pianist in the concert, “From Orient to Hollywood” in 2010, where he, as the first Persian pianist in Europe, played the second piano concert of Aminollah Hosseins, has earned him special attention among German music circles. As pianist, he received numerous awards and honours at competitions. Persian piano notation (Morteza Mahjoobi's notation) was registered as a National Cultural Heritage of Iran (UNESCO) in 2013 by Pooyan Azadeh.

Since 2007, he has been a full PhD scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He worked as Asst. Professor at Martin-Luther-University Musical Institute in Germany. He got his doctoral degree from the same university, Martin Luther University in Germany, with great honor "Magna Cum Laude" in January 2015.

In 2015 Dr. Azadeh founded the first professional piano academy in Iran, Pooyan Piano Institute and since 2018 he founded the first music and art university in east of Iran, Pooyan Art University.

As a first piano professor in Iran with a PhD in music he has taught classical piano at the music faculty of Tehran University of Art since 2015.

Recently his composition for piano is published as a book with the title “Persian Songs & Dances for Piano” by “Bellmann Music Publication” in Germany and his new book  with the title "Playing Scales fluently, New Method of Playing Scales Easily on the Piano" was published by Hofmeister Music Publication in Germany in 2023.

For the first time he organized and established a bachelor major degree for “Persian Piano Music Performance” for Iranian higher education at Pooyan Art University in 2020.

Dr. Pooyan Azadeh is founder of "Intercultural Piano Pedagogy Project" which is an international piano project at Festival Young Artists Bayreuth in Germany since 2010.

Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University State Conservatory Department of Turkish Music

Gamze Köprülü Yazıcı is an associate professor in the Turkish Music Department at the State Conservatory of Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University. She received her bachelor's degree in music from Erciyes University (2009), her master's degree in music from Erciyes University (2011), and her doctorate in musicology from Gazi University (2016). Her research continues in areas such as the Edvar tradition of Turkish Music, Islamic Music, Turkish Music Rhythms, Religious Music, Music Literature, and Ottoman Turkish studies. Alongside these academic endeavors, he teaches courses in percussion instruments and contributes to events through performances. In addition to his book on Edvar, he has contributed to the fields of Turkish Music and musicology through numerous national and international publications. 

Dr. Evangelia Chaldaeaki (Ptychio in Turkish Language, Philology and History, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – 2014; MA in Folklore Studies from the same University – 2017) received her doctorate from the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2022 with a dissertation titled Folk music in the Turkish and Greek musical collections of late Ottoman era: Popular culture and intercommunal relations (in Greek). She is an experienced researcher and has conducted extensive historical work through archival research. Most of her work concerns archival research around her areas of studies, like Greek and Turkish music, culture and folklore. She holds a Diploma in Byzantine music, while she also teaches singing at the Center of Greek Music “Fivos Anogianakes” and takes part in concerts either as a soloist or with her choir “Fivos Anogianakes”. She is an active musician and a teacher of Greek folk singing. She has been teaching relevant courses at the Centre for Greek Music "Fivos Anogianakis" since 2013, at the Postgraduate Programme "Ethnomusicology and Musical Practice" of the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens since 2023, at the Undergraduate Programme of the same Department during the fall semester of the academic year 2024-2025 and at the Undergraduate Programme of the corresponding Department of the University of Ioannina during the spring semester of the academic year 2023-2024. She has received several distinctions for her work. During the academic year 2015-2016 she was a scholar of the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fund (SYLFF) and between years 2019-2021 of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.). Her master thesis titled K. A. Psachos and his contribution to recording and studying Greek folk songs (in Greek) received the 2018 Kaftantzoglio Award. Also, it was published in 2017 as a monography from Edition Orpheus.

Born in Bulgaria in 1987, the artist completed his primary and secondary education at Uludağ University State Conservatory, his undergraduate and graduate studies at Anadolu University State Conservatory, and the Proficiency in Art (Dr) Program and Pedagogical Formation Program at Istanbul University. She worked with Azerbaijan State Artist Prof. Zöhrab ADIGÜZELZADE, Mehmet OKANŞAR, Gülsin ONAY, Prof. Milena MOLLOVA, Gabriele LEPORATTI, Assoc. Benjamin MORITZ, Prof. Andrej TATARSKY and Mikhail LIDSKY. She has trained students in prestigious institutions of our country, and has worked in many festivals, projects and concerts. Since 2010; she gave lectures at Anadolu University State Conservatory, Uludag University Faculty of Education Music Department, Marmara University GSF Music Department, Istanbul University State Conservatory Music Department, Mımar Sınan Fine Arts University, Music Department of Nişantaşı University Conservatory and Art and Design Faculty Music Department, Bahcesehir University Conservatory Music Departmant.

Dr. Ayat Al Matani is Head of the Department of Music and Musicology and Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman. She earned her PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Birmingham in July 2024 and holds an MA in Musicology from the University of York, obtained in December 2017. Her research focuses on the preservation of intangible cultural heritage, particularly Omani traditional performing arts, utilizing ethnographic fieldwork and digital or AI-assisted archival methods.

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The researcher works as an Assistant Professor at Cairo University in the Faculty of Specific Education, Department of Music Education, Egypt. She obtained her Ph.D. in Music Education with a specialization in piano with distinction and honors and a recommendation for exchange between universities in 2017 from the same university.
The researcher actively participated in published scientific research, supervised academic theses, and was engaged in conferences. She published a book derived from her doctoral thesis, published by German Noor Publishing. Additionally, she received funding for research projects from the Academy of Scientific Research and projects funded by Cairo University. She is also involved in community projects and educational development in Egypt and Oman.
The researcher possesses skills and expertise gained through numerous courses in scientific research, technology, statistical analysis, and academic and administrative quality. She organized workshops in the field of music education and piano, delivered lectures on the use of distance learning applications in university teaching as a Blackboard Portal, and contributed to academic quality in higher education. Furthermore, she has administrative university experience by working as a member of various committees.
As a member of professional associations, the researcher belongs to the International Society for Music Education (ISME) founded in Belgium and headquartered in the United States of America. She is also a member of the Omani Association for Quality in Higher Education in the Sultanate of Oman.
The researcher has received several awards, certificates of appreciation, and honors from various entities. She has been working as a Music Trainer of Piano Specialization at Sultan Qaboos University in the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Music and Musicology, Sultanate of Oman since 2021.

Jinho Kim is a professor of musicology and musical composition of the
Department of Music at Andong National University, in South Korea.
He studied with Dr. Marc Battier at Paris-Sorbonne University, also
known as Paris IV, where he earned a doctorate in musicology. He has
written several Korean articles and books on musicology, and composed
contemporary music. His recent publications include <Mozart Homo sapiens>
(Galmuri, Seoul, 2017) and <Timbre of Attraction> (Galmuri, 2014). His
recearch interests included the cognitive model of musical composition,
the evolutionary psychology applied to musicology, socio-psychology on
the way how different people listen to the music, etc. 

I am a music enthusiast who enjoys working with children and young adults. My research interests include Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, Diaspora studies and issues of Identity. My most recent project was the production of Jungle Book The Musical, a musical theatre production with Rohingya refugee children. I am currently working on developing an EdTech platform powered by AI technology to provide postgraduate and undergraduate support to students.

Beisembayeva Altynai Abdikhanovna is a graduate of the Alma Ata Kurmangazy State Conservatory. In 1989, she graduated from the Faculty of Kazakh Folk Instruments with a degree in Dombra with the qualification of concert performer, teacher. She began her professional career in 1988 as an artist of the Kurmangazy Orchestra. In 1990, she worked as a teacher of dombra at the Music school No. 1 in Almaty. In 1999, she entered the full-time postgraduate department of the ASU named after Abai. In 2004 defended her PhD thesis on "Patriotic education of high school students by means of the Kazakh heroic epic", specialty 13.00.01 - General pedagogy, history of pedagogy and education, ethnopedagogy. In 2007 By the decision of the Committee for Supervision and Certification in the field of Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, he was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor in the specialty of pedagogy. In 2017, she graduated from the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages named after Abylai Khan. In 2021 She was awarded for the preparation of the Prometheus participating team in the All-Russian International Student Olympiad "Pedagogy: Effective educational practices".The developer of the educational program in the field of personnel training 6B01-7M01-8D01. Since 2022, he has been an Academician of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Kazakhstan. In 2023 Awarded the title of KR Kurmetti Azamaty. Starting in 2023. He is a leading researcher at the scientific research project IRN AR 19678793 on the topic "Training competitive music teachers in the context of modernization and renewal of the music teacher education system" with grant funding from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

rof. Dr. Saule Iskhakovna Utegalieva is a leading Kazakh musicologist and art critic. She serves as a professor at the Faculty of Musicology and Composition at the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory.

She studied at the Leningrad State Institute of Culture, where she earned her PhD, and later obtained the title of Doctor of Art Criticism at the P. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.

Her research focuses on the musical culture of Kazakhstan and the Turkic world, traditional instruments (particularly the dombra), as well as music theory and historical musicology. She has authored numerous scholarly articles, monographs, and textbooks in these fields.

Prof. Utegalieva plays an important role in advancing Kazakh musicology, supervising research projects, mentoring young scholars, and contributing to the preservation and study of Kazakhstan’s musical heritage, including early sound recordings.

Michael Frishkopf is Professor of Music at the University of Alberta and Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology. He earned his BS in Mathematics from Yale University (1984), an MA in Ethnomusicology from Tufts University (1989), and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles (1999). His research focuses on Arab and Islamic music, sound and ritual performance, the relationship between music and religion, consciousness studies, machine learning, as well as virtual and augmented reality applications in cross-cultural music research. In addition to his academic work, he is an active performer on piano, West African drums, and Middle Eastern wind instruments. With over a hundred publications indexed in Google Scholar and ResearchGate, he is recognized as one of the leading figures in international ethnomusicology.

Margarethe Adams specializes in music, media, and popular culture in Central Asia, and has conducted ethnographic research in Kazakhstan, northwest China, and Mongolia. Her recent monograph, Steppe Dreams: Time, Mediation, and Postsocialist Celebrations in Kazakhstan (Central Eurasia in Context, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), investigates temporality and politics in postsocialist culture. Other publications appear in The Yale Journal of Music & Religion, Collaborative Anthropologies and The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Her current research examines the role of sound and music in popular forms of religion and spirituality, including Muslim pilgrimage, religious healing, and Korean evangelical practices in Kazakhstan. Adams recently organized the Sound & Secularity Symposium with music historian and theorist colleague August Sheehy. Adams’s current teaching interests include developing and offering classes that intersect with the aims of the Black Lives Matter movement and antiracist teaching, particularly in teaching music history of twentieth- and twenty-first-century America through the lens of race. Her recent course offerings include MUS 537 Gender and Race in Ethnography; and MUS 536 Music, Belief, and the Black Experience in the United States. Her undergraduate classes include Music and Islam; and Music in China; and she is currently developing a course that charts the diversity and migrations of the U.S. population through popular music studies, including the Blues, Gospel, Motown, Native American popular music, and the Texas-Mexican conjunto. As a faculty affiliate in Stony Brook's History Department and Asian and Asian-American Studies, she is also developing historical ethnomusicology courses related to Medieval Muslim Spain and the rise of Islam. These include a previously taught graduate seminar, Music and Belief on the Silk Road, and a 300-level undergraduate course titled Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Music Histories across the Mediterranean. Her education: B.A. (Russian and Soviet Area Studies), Middlebury College; M.M. and Ph.D. (Musicology) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Gvantsa Ghvinjilia is a musicologist, Ph.D., Doctor of Art Studies, and Associate Professor in the Department of Music History at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, where she also serves as Head of the Dissertation Board. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Music Theory and Transcultural Music Studies (JMTTMS) and a member of the Georgian Composer’s Union. In addition, she holds a guest senior lecturer position at Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Cinema Tbilisi State University. Dr. Ghvinjilia was a jury member for the prestigious Tsinandali Awards in 2022 and has been awarded scholarships from both the President of Georgia and the Zakaria Paliashvili Fund. From 2006 to 2013, she held the roles of PR Manager and Head of the Literary Department at the Tbilisi Zakaria Paliashvili Opera and Ballet State Theatre. Between 2021 and 2023, she participated in the Erasmus+ Mobility Exchange Program in Belgium, France, and Poland. She has delivered public lectures in Georgia, Belgium, Poland, and Ukraine and is a frequent contributor to Georgian television and radio as a speaker and commentator. As a music critic, she regularly writes for leading Georgian periodicals and actively participates in national and international academic conferences. Her research interests encompass the religion and music, transcultural studies, multimedia and eco music, musical culture and transhumanism.

ORCID: 0000-0003-3452-4876
Email- gvantsa.ghvinjilia@tsc.edu.ge

Web site: https://gvantsaghvinjilia.com/ 
Web: https://tsc.edu.ge/en/academic-staff/ 
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@gvantsaghvinjilia733/featured

Ad-Soyad : Orkun Zafer ÖZGELEN

ÖĞRENİM DURUMU:
• Lisans : İTÜ TMDK Kompozisyon Bölümü (2005-2010)

• YüksekLisans : İTÜ Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Müzik Teorisi ve
Kompozisyon Programı (2014-1017)

• Doktora : İTÜ Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Müzikoloji ve Müzik Toerisi Programı (2024)

MESLEKİ DENEYİM :
• 2010-2011 yılları arası müzik öğretmenliği
• 2010-2014 yılları arası İTÜ Müzikal Topluluğu kurucu şefliği ve eğitmenliği
• 2017 yılından itibaren İTÜ TMDK Müzik Teorisi Anabilim Dalı’nda araştırma
görevlisi olarak çalışmaktadır.

YAYINLARDAN SEÇMELER

• Özgelen O., Z., Sarı-Çolakoğlu, G., Durmuş, S., U. 2023. Hüseyin Sadettin Arel’in Türk Makam Müziğinde Çok Seslilik Anlayışı: “Kemençe Beşlemesi” Örneği, Rast Müzikoloji Dergisi, s. 75-95.
• Özgelen O., Z., 2023, Rauf Yekta Bey ve Hüseyin Sadettin Arel’in Bestecilik Anlayışında Mevlevi Ayini Formu. Uluslararası Rauf Yekta Sempozyumu.
• Özgelen, O., Z., Güvençoğlu, Ş., 2021. Türk Makam Müzikçisinin Seyir Defteri I. İstanbul: Pan Yayıncılık.
• Özgelen, O., Z., Güvençoğlu, Ş., 2022. Türk Makam Müziğinde Makam ve Seyir Kompozisyonu, Ege 6. Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler ve Uygulamalı Bilimler Kongresi: İzmir., s. 660-668.
• Özgelen, O., Z. 2021. The Place of Technology in Music Performance and Self-Actualization During Covid-19 Pandemic. Balkan Müzik ve Sanat Dergisi, s. 55-72.
• Özgelen, O., Z. 2019. Sistemci Okul ve Anadolu Edvarlarından Günümüze Makam Müziğinde Ezoterik ve Rasyonel Düşünce. X. Uluslararası Hisarlı Ahmet Sempozyumu: Kütahya.
• Özgelen, O., Z. 2017. Mezmurları Kim Besteledi?: Ali Ufki Bey’in Eserlerinde Batı Müziği Bulguları. İTÜ Porte Akademik Müzik ve Dans Araştırmaları Dergisi, s. 106-117.
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ÖDÜLLER:
• 5th International Microtonal Guitar Competition, 2021, yarışmanın bestecilik alanında üçüncülük ödülü.
• Milletlerarası İlahi Aşkın Sesi Beste Yarışması, 2020, mansiyon ödülü.
• Kadıköy Belediyesi Süreyya Operası Ulusal Beste Yarışması, 2017, Jüri
özel ödülü.