Damla Pehlevan
EDUCATION
Saint Benoit French College, Istanbul 1997 - 2002
Galatasaray High School, Istanbul 2002 - 2005 Istanbul Technical University – Faculty of Architecture 2005 - 2010 Department of Landscape Architecture Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture de Paysage de Bordeaux, France 2008 - 2009 Erasmus Student Exchange Program Istanbul Technical University – Social Sciences Institute- Music 2012 - 2015 "MIAM" Department of Sonic Arts Master Program
MUSIC EDUCATION
Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts Conservatory 1996 - 2005 Department of Music / Part-time Piano Program with Zeynep Yamantürk and Ali Darmar Ecole Francophone de Musique d'Istanbul 2007 - 2010 Department of Piano / Jazz Piano with Jean François Giansily
CONTESTS & EXPERIENCES
Radio Television of Turkey Youth Choir Chorister 2004 Institut Français d'Istanbul French Song Contest 1st Prize 2005 Bulgaria, Corne d'Or International French Song Contest 2nd Prize 2006 Festival International de Chanson Francophone, Istanbul 1st Prize 2006 Les Yeux Rouges (Balcan & Klezmer Music Band) Lead Singer 2007 - 2010 Baba Zula (Psychedelic Turkish Music Band) Keyboards & Vocals 2011 - ... Shantel & Bukovina Club Orkestar, Anarchy&Romance Vocals & Keyboards 2011-2012 World Tour BIZ (Turkish Indie Rock Band), first album Müzik Istiyoruz, Keyboards & Back Vocals 2008-2013 2012 (WEPLAY) Damla Pehlevan Project Singer & Songwriter 2013-... BT Music and Performing Arts School Vocal and piano trainer 2013-... 3 Adam (Turkish Talk Show at Star TV) Live Performance with Singer 2014 Shantel Music Explorer (French Television Show at France O TV) Turkish Cast as Singer 2015 Live Performance
FESTIVALS With Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar
Broek op Langedijk, Indian Summer Festival, Netherlands 2011 Tilburg, Festival Mundial, Netherlands Groove Festival, Toulouse, France Guca Festival, Trieste, Italy Dour Festival, Dour, Belgium Zeltival, Karlsruhe, Germany Habere Poche Festival, Habere, France Kubana Festival, Krasnodar, Russia Mini Rock Festival, Horb am Neckar, Germany Les Escales, St. Nazaire, France Porto Latino Festival, Porto, Corsica, France Flow Festival, Helsinki, Finland Feest in het Park Festival, Oudenaarde, Belgium Soundslike Open Air Festival, Graz, Austria Saloppe Sommer Openair, Dresden, Germany World Culture Parade, Roermond, Netherlands
La Roche sur Yon, 7eme Vagues Festival, France 2012 St Etienne, Festival, France Roterdam, Dunya Festival, Netherlands Festi'neuch, Neuchatel, Switzerland Festival, Toronto, Canada Fete de la Musique, France Solidays, Paris, France Fusion Festival, Lärz, Germany Zeltival, Karlsruhe, Germany Guca Festival, Guca, Serbia, Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary NOTFestival, Noto, Italy Musicalarue, Bordeaux, France Nantes, Couvre Feu, France
SONIC ARTS CONCERTS & ACADEMIC WORK
Electrosonic City, Borusan, Istanbul Electronic music composition 2013 "S o I nsecure"
Electrosonic City, Aksanat, Istanbul Composition for piano and 2014 electronics "Immortelle The Flower" premiere
Ogen/blik Instantaneous Music and Performance, Electronic music composition 2014 Studio Loos Den Haag, the Netherlands "Variations on Piano, Speech & Virtual Bugs"
MIAM Electroacoustic Retrospective Concert, ITU, Istanbul Electronic music composition 2015 "Happiest Day Of My Life"
ICMC 41st International Computer Music Conference ICMC Programmed Paper, 2015 University of North Texas, USA "Interactive Virtual Soundscapes: A Research Report" (coauthor with Dr. Anil Camci and Zeynep Ozcan)
JINGLE & VOICE-OVER
"Rio 2" Chorister 2014 Animation Movie, Turkish Voice-over Production "Barbie™And The Secret Door" Main Character Alexa's singing 2014 Animation Movie, Universal, voice Turkish Voice-over Production
"Anew'la Yaşlanmıyoruz " Woman Character singing voice 2014 Avon Türkiye, Internet Commercial Jingle by Murat Ertel and Levent Akman
"Mall of Istanbul" Singing voice 2015 Mall of Istanbul, Commercial Jingle, by Ugur Ates Sus Yapım
THEATER
COMPANY PLAY AUTHOR ROLE DIRECTOR
AFUT French Theater Tombeau de Malika Beyduriff Actress Olivier Chartier 2003 Company Cassandre
Semaver Kumpanya The Thempest W. Shakespeare Chorister Işıl Kasapoğlu 2006
Companie Theatrale Recueil Amédée Bricolo Director Amédée Bricolo 2008 Amédée Bricolo Assistant
AFUT French Theater La Fleur a la L. Pirandello Actress Olivier Chartier 2007 Company Bouche- A la Maryam Chartier Sortie AFUT French Theater Comedie S. Beckett Actress Olivier Chartier 2008 Company Maryam Chartier
AFUT French Theater Voila la Tete, Sevim Burak Actress Olivier Chartier 2009-2010 Company Voila le Tronc, MariamChartier Voila les Ailes Tiyatro ŞOK Arkadaşım Uğur Aktaş Actress & Uğur Aktaş 2011 Momie ArtDirection, Video Design
QUALIFICATION
Kenter Theater Oyunculuğun ABCsi Theater School 2006-2007
FESTIVALS
Saison de la Turquie en France- Espace Culturelle Le Point d'Eau, Strasbourg France 2009 Saison de la Turquie en France- La Saison Turque, Lille France 2009 6e Festival de Théatre Francophone de Belgrade Serbia 2007 15th Istanbul International Theatre Festival Turkey 2006 Rencontre Internationales Méditerranéennes de Castelnaudary France 2002-2003