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Cağlayan Yıldız was born in Aydın in 1966, and grew up in Izmir. He started playing the guitar at the age of 17. While studying medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at Aegean University, he continued his music projects (rock, blues, funk, and jazz). He pursued his study in music at Bilkent University, Conservatory Jazz Department with a full scholarship.
Yıldız has played with most of the prominent artists of the Turkish jazz scene, and appeared on several jazz albums. He has also worked as a performer and arranger with renowned artists such as Tarkan, Kubat, Grup Gündoğarken, Baris Manço, Ugur Yücel, Sener Sen, Aysegül, Grup Durga and Bosphorus in other genres. Yıldız taught guitar at the Akademi Istanbul. He wrote articles for "Jazz" magazine of Turkey.
In 2000, Yıldız studied jazz guitar, jazz bass guitar, jazz arranging and composition at a Conservatory in Amsterdam. He studied Classical composition with Henk Alkema at Utrecht Conservatory, and graduated with honors in a year. Along with Classical composition, Yıldız studied Electronic composition with Rene Uijlenhoet at Rotterdam Conservatory in 2003-2004. In 2006, Yıldız completed his Electronic Music studies at Utrecht University KMT and graduated with "European Master of Media Arts" and "Composition in Contexts Master" degrees.
From 2000 to 2006, Yıldız worked actively as a leader, composer, and performer in jazz, crossover & theater projects such as Turqumstances, Big Bad Bug Band, Çağlayan Yıldız Odd-Tett, AZ (duo with Oğuz Büyükberber), Dört-tett-lü, "Zijde, Staal & Bronze" (with Ensemble Gending), "I, Human" (a TR-NL Theater Project), "Ferhat& Şirin" (a TR-NL Theater Project); and performed in many festivals and venues. He also taught guitar at a Music School in Amsterdam. In 2005, he gave a week-long workshop in the Jazz Department at Utrecht Conservatory and Rotterdam Conservatory. Besides being performer and composer, Yıldız worked as an editor and copyist for a music publishing company. Since his return to Turkey in 2006, Yıldız has continued working on various projects.
Reference: caglayanyildiz.com, newmusicistanbul.com
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