EVERYTHING ABOUT SARP MADEN

Sarp Maden was born at 1968 in Istanbul. He graduated from Saint Joseph High School in 1987 and studied Psychology at Bosphorus University between 1987 -1990. He started to play guitar at 15 years old and is mostly an autodidact in developing his guitar skills. He worked privately on jazz harmony with Berklee graduate Ali Perret. He is a major voice in Turkish jazz scene since early nineties. He played in concerts and festivals in Turkey, France, Italy, Germany, USA, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Czhechia, Austria, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovakia, Kosovo etc. His teaching experience is mostly private lessons and masterclasses in music schools (Bilgi University, Bosphorus University) and teaching guitar and harmony at Akademi İstanbul and EFMI (Ecole Francophone de Musique d’Istanbul).

Among the albums he made or collaborated are:
Acid Trippin' - Midnite Rebels 1996 (Ali Perret, Yahya Dai, Erkan Ogur, Ercüment Ateş), Lodos 1997 (Ateş Tezer, Mahmut Yalay, Oguz Büyükberber),

Trio Mrio 1998 (Volkan Öktem, Çaglayan Yıldız),
Quartet Muartet - Dokuz Parça 2004 (Volkan Öktem, Alp Ersönmez, Genco Arı),
Quartet Muartet - Dokuz Parça Daha 2007 (Volkan Öktem, Alp Ersönmez, Genco Arı),
Sarp Maden - Bence 2008 (Volkan Öktem, Eylem Pelit, Genco Arı, Sibel Köse),
Sarp Maden - Ardından 2010 (Turgut Alp Bekoglu, Eylem Pelit, Adnan Karaduman, Imer Demirer, Sevval Sam),
Çagrı Sertel - Newborn 2010 (Çagrı Sertel, Kaggan Yıldız, Ediz Hafızoğlu)
Sarp Maden - Durgun Sular 2011 (Engin Recepogulları, Matt Hall, Derin Bayhan)
Trio Mrio 2 2012 (Volkan Öktem, Çaglayan Yıldız)
Sarp Maden - Durmaksızın 2013 (Engin Recepogulları, Matt Hall, Derin Bayhan, Serkan Özyılmaz)
Soyut Boyut 2013 (Ediz Hafızoglu, Engin Recepogulları)
Sarp Maden - Bilinmez 2014 (Engin Recepogulları, Ercüment Orkut, Alper Yılmaz, Derin Bayhan)
Soyut Boyut 2 2015 (Ediz Hafızoglu, Engin Recepogulları)
Sarp Maden - Things Are Falling Into Place 2015 (Alper Yılmaz, Volkan Öktem)
Ercüment Orkut - Low Profile 2015 (Alper Yılmaz, Volkan Öktem)
Maden Öktem Ersönmez - MÖE 2017 (Alp Ersönmez, Volkan Öktem)
Sarp Maden - Waning Moon 2017 (Volkan Öktem, Engin Recepogulları, Rashmi Bhatt, Sevval Sam, Gilad Atzmon, Sebastian Studnitzky, Aziz Senol Filiz, Suren Asaduryan)
Çagrı Sertel - Instant 2017 (Çagrı Sertel, Engin Recepoğulları, Volkan Hürsever, Volkan Öktem)
Sarp maden - Aperlai 2021 ( Ercüment Orkut, Cengiz Baysal, Volkan Öktem, Eylem Pelit, Halil Çaglar Serin)
Sarp Maden - House By The Lake 2022 (Cengiz baysal, Apostolos Sideris, Ercüment Orkut, Deniz Mahir Kartal)
Cengiz Baysal - Cake Pants And Pie Shorts 2022
Sarp maden, Berke Can Özcan, Sanem Kalfa - 1/2 Ada 2023
Sarp Maden, Tolga Tüzün - Converging Lines 2023

Some artists he played and/or recorded with are: Cengiz Baysal, Volkan Öktem, Alp Ersönmez, Eylem Pelit, Genco Arı, Alper Yılmaz, Turgut Alp Bekoglu, Caglayan Yıldız, Ali Perret, Engin Recepogulları, Derin Bayhan, Matt Hall, Serkan Özyılmaz, Ercüment Orkut, Çagrı Sertel, Sabri Tulug Tırpan, Sibel Köse, Imer Demirer, Okay Temiz, Erkan Ogur, Mike Mcginnis, Nick Kadajski, Jef Giansily, Stephane Belmondo, EST symphony (Magnus Öström, Dan Berglund, Jacky Terrasson, Marius Neset), Rova Saxophone Quartet, Ricky Ford, Andy Sheppard, Dan Moretti, Ilhan Erşahin, Ateş Tezer, Mahmut Yalay, Oguz Büyükberber, Reyent Bölükbaşı, Suren Asaduryan, Yahya Dai, Emre Kartarı, Bilal Karaman, Ozan Musluoglu, Kagan Yıldız, Ferit Odman, Can Kozlu