Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu

Cellist, composer, improviser, and organiser. Her main interest in music lies in moving between genres and experimenting with ways to explore non-genre specification. Her background is rooted in growing up in Istanbul and engaging with European classical and Turkish traditional music, later expanding into free improvisation, electroacoustic music, and experimental music practices. 

Her work focuses on performance, composition, collaborative projects, and creative music education. Long-term collaborators include iKKi Duo with Fulya Uçanok (piano, electronics), the Istanbul-based free improvisation trio SAVT with Merve Salgar and Elif Canfeza Gündüz (featured in the documentary Sound Dreams of Istanbul by Anıl Eraslan), and the music collective klank.ist ensemble with Eda Er, Aslı Kobaner, and Merve Salgar, alongside other artists. Her current collaborative projects include a duos with Peter Cusack (field recordings, guitar) and Melih Sarıgöl (modular synthesisers). 

Currently in Berlin, she co-curates experimental music concert series Cemetery Chapel Concerts with Ulrike Ruf and na-mute-na: Electroacoustic Nights with Melih Sarıgöl, and is part of the artist-run experimental venue Richten25. She has been based in Berlin since 2024 and continues various collaborative musical projects alongside her solo work.