The Musician
About
A qanun player and singer rooted in the music of the eastern Mediterranean — a life spent performing and sharing the tradition.
Gorkem Devrim Okten is a qanun player and singer whose work is rooted in the music of Turkey, Anatolia and the wider eastern Mediterranean.
Gorkem’s interests mainly consist of Turkish, Greek and the widely considered anatolian-mediterranean music. She studied qanun performance at the State Conservatory of Istanbul (1999). She has many years of professional experience, as a performer, a singer but also as a teacher.
Her CV consists of many musical performances at concerts, theatrical plays and records, accross multiple musical genres such as traditional, classical and modern.
More about these performances can be found in the Discography page.