Sumru Ağıryürüyen

Sumru Ağıryürüyen is a singer and mandolinist from Turkey. Her solo album Issız/Solitude was released under the label Kalan Music. She released two other albums (Ayde Mori and Balkan Journey) with the group "Balkan Journey". She has participated in dozens of recordings since the 1980s.

Singing mostly in the projects of kanun master Göksel Baktagir, oud master Yurdal Tokcan and with the Turkish music group Istanbul Sazendeleri, she prepared a project comprising the music of different ethnicities in Turkey, and another project with songs from different continents, Breath of the Earth.

With the "Furtuna" project she sang Hadjidakis songs with prominent Turkish and Greek musicians. As a member of Three Women project, she had sung love songs from different ethnicities in Turkey. She performed Sephardic, Klezmer music with different groups and musicians in several festivals. She is one of the guest soloists of the Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra.

She sang with the Yinon Muallem Ensemble in various projects and albums. She is also the music director of Gitarcafe, a music center in Istanbul, and the organization director of ISCMS, an international music festival. Together with three other musicians, she composed the music for Autumn (2008), directed by Özcan Alper, which won Best Soundtrack Award at the 2009 Angers Film Festival (France).

She is one of the featured Artists in Coke Studio Pakistan, Season 6 produced by the legendary Pakistani music producer Rohail Hyatt.^[1]

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