Bio

Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu is a cellist, improviser, composer and artist researcher based in Berlin. Her artistic practice derives from electroacoustic compositions and performances, free improvisation, the concept of play, contemporary and experimental sound works, as well as Turkish makam music.

She performed and curated various improvisatory and experimental music projects. A duo album with Fulya Ucanok, iKKi Duo’s “Nine Stage of Note Arriving” and “Wandering Rocks” was released in 2023 as a comprovisation and experimental project with cello, objects, piano and electronics. In 2021 with Klank.ist ensemble, released their album “V.Dialogues,” which was performed and composed by the ensemble members; Eda Er, Aslı Kobaner, Fulya Ucanok, Zeynep Ayse Hatipoglu. In 2020, with SAVT free improvisation trio consists from classical kemence, tanbur and cello (Merve Salgar and Elif Canfeza Gündüz) in Istanbul, they released “Birinci Hane” (First Home) album. Her solo electroacoustic composition, “MAERSK,” was included in the compilation album “String Layers” by 7k! Berlin records in 2020. Her compositions performed in festivals such as Journay Of Sound Festival Turkey, Bilgi New Music Festival Istanbul.

She was an artist in residence at SCHIESSLHAUS AiR, Kollnburg, Germany in 2023, Field Kitchen Academy Silence with the Consent of Sound in Berlin 2019 and One Beat Exchange Program, Istanbul in 2016. She studied as a cellist and composer in Eurogenetic classical music and Turkish makam music at the Conservatory of Istanbul University and the State Conservatory for Turkish Music at the Istanbul Technical University (ITU TMDK). She completed her Master’s degree at  Music Theory and Composition at ITU TMDK, where she worked as a research and teaching assistant for seven years. She completed her Ph.D. in 2022, at the ITU Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) with her practice-based research titled “A practice-based research on musical improvisation : Collaborative Improvisation as a play”. She collaborates with artists, conducts workshops, and is a member of SAVT, Klank.ist ensemble, and HEYA Sound Project and iKKi Duo and currently lives in Berlin, Germany.