DUNEN Mubin

Born in Silvan (Turquie) on the 4th.10.1977

Residence: Sestu, via Cagliari 98 09028 Sestu Sardinia

CURRICULUM VITAE

Mubin Dunen was born in Silvan (Turkey), on 04/10/1977. He studied "nay" to the Municipal Conservatory
of Izmit (Turkey). After the first experiences since the age of 20 he carried out his musical career in
professional form collaborating with well-known bands (Koma Amed, Koma Azad, Karagunes, Alatav in
Turkey and Lilith in Berlin) and collaborated with the concert recordings and music albums of famous
artists, such as Ciwan Haco, Mehmet Atli, Lilith, Metin and Kemal Kahraman, Servet Koca Kaya, Mehmet
Akbas, Gulay, Burhan Berken, Tayfun Talipoglu, Serdar Keskin.

He has participated to several festivals in Turkey and abroad and he deepened the knowledge of new,
traditional and contemporary instruments. In addition to Ney and his own voice, he regularly uses Santur
(cimbalon), Cura (small saz), Tanbur (turkish cello) and percussions. He has developed a personal style both
in the composition and execution, a style that is influenced by the his various meetings with European and
Asian artists.

In Europe, he collaborated on an electronic music project with Von Magnet, (France), he wrote and
performed the music for a play made by Gisella Vacca (Italy), has collaborated with jazz musician Saadet
Turkoz (Switzerland) for the realization of the work he presented at 'Aksanat Jazz Festival in Istanbul.

In summary, he performed concerts in the USA, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Great Britain,
Norway, Switzerland, France, Germany, Romania, Austria and Italy, both solo and in groups. In Italy he has
participated in dozens of shows, especially in Venice (for the Biennale), Volterra (theatre exhibitions
organized by Teatro Nascosto), Rome (Kurdish Film Festival).

In Sardinia, among other various performances there were those in Sassari (Concert on the occasion of
Cavalcata Sarda with Koma Azad), Genoni (exhibition Terre Sorelle), Castiadas (Festival Ethnicus) and
Cagliari (Festival Sciradindi). He composed the music for various documentaries, films (Topac, Kursun adres
Sormaz, Dut Zamani, Denge Came) and theater (Teatro-arousing Cerb, Seyrimesel Theater-Seva Periyan,
Peristan).

In 2009 he recorded the album BAHAR (spring) and ARAF (purgatory). Since 2010 he started working, as a
consultant and musical performer, with Coop Theater Sirio Sardinia Theater. Also in 2010 he made up with
the Sardinian pianist Valerio Baraccani (aka Cuya Valo) the musical piece "Cuya Valo Meets Mubin Dunen".

In 2011 he collaborated on the album "No mendigues Amor" of the Sardinian singer Paola Pitzalis finally
accompanying her in the song Hey Nare and Horacio's Lullaby. In 2012, there are new the replicas in
Sardinia of the play where he composed and performed the music “If from my verses you tear the roses by
and with Gisella Vacca. For six years he has collaborated in Sardinia with the band Magic Carpet (the

violinist Angelica Turno, the guitarist Marco Maxia, the percussionist Giancarlo Murranca) and recently
with the bass player of the group Nasodoble the accordionist Luigi Lai and Sardinia Jazz Orchestra
Alessandro Zolo. In 2016 he has published his last album called Gerok (the traveler). In 2017 He has been
part of the musical project of the singer Ambra Pintore Terre del ritorno.
 

Nilüfer Perihan Kurtoğlu
Born in İstanbul as a world citizen, by the mixed roots of Abkhazian, Kurdish, Armenian and Albanian. Graduating from the Communications Faculty of İstanbul University, she started to study to become an actress in the school of Ali Poyrazoğlu. After her five year long journalism career, she returned back to her dreams, continuing her study in TAL (Theater Research Labratory) of the İstanbul Municipality Theater by Ayla Algan, Beklan Algan, Mustafa Kaplan. She performed both in Turkey and abroad with ‘’Oyuncular Tiyatro Grubu’’, ‘’Doğu Oyuncuları’’, ‘’Galata Perform’’, in the plays directed by Ayla Algan. She directed and played in ‘’Araf ve Gözler’’ (2008), ‘’Eksik’’ (2009), ‘’Kabul’’ (2010). She created and played ‘’Asl-ı Aşk’’ with the orijinal music by Mübin Dünen starting from 2015. First in the garden of Galata Mevlevihanesi and later in the garden of Burgazada Cemevi and Burgazada Cennet Bahçesi, Bozcaada Salhane, Mardin Museum, Gümüşlük Eklisia, 22. International Ankara Theater Festival, Kadıköy KarmaDrama stage, she played ‘’Asl-ı Aşk’’ as a solo performance. Her childhood love of music came in her life again with Mübin Dünen. Her first book ‘’Kediniz Sizi Nasıl Eğitir?’’ (How Does Your Cat Educate You?) is published in 2017.