Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu

A cellist, composer, improviser and researcher. Her main interest in music lies in the freedom to move between genres and explore music without genre specification. Her background is rooted in growing up in Istanbul and engaging with both European and Turkish makam music, and later improvised, contemporary, electroacoustic and experimental music. Her work focuses on performance, composition, collaborative projects, sound installations and socially and culturally engaged musical projects, and creative educational workshops. She has released the albums Birinci Hane with the SAVT improvisation trio (with Merve Salgar, Elif Canfeza Gündüz) and "V. Dialogues" with the Klank.ist Ensemble (with Eda Er, Aslı Kobaner and Fulya Uçanok), "Nine Stages of Not Arriving " and "Wandering Rocks" (2023) with iKKi Duo (with Fulya Uçanok) the solo album Deep Love/Play, and her composition was included in the compilation album String Layers by 7k! Berlin Records in 2020. She also organises concert series, including na-mute-na (Istanbul, 2016); the Bonding Sounds Series (Berlin, 2024, with Merve Salgar); the Golgatha Improvisation Series (Berlin, 2024, with Ulrike Ruf); and the Friday Evening Improvisations at Cemetery Chapels (Berlin, 2025-). She is a member of the Richten25 team, an artist-run project space in Berlin dedicated to experimental music and art. She has been based in Berlin since 2023.