ÖZLEM SOYDAN
Professional Opera Artist and Singer, Musician, Songwriter and Composer,
Overtone and Throat Singer

She was born in Ankara. She graduated from Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory, Opera Singing and Acting. She is the soloist soprano at the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet. She has sung lead roles in many operas, operettas and musicals, and took part in national tours and festivals. She received training on singing and acting and took part in concerts in classical music capitals such as London, Vienna, Milan and Berlin.

After her interest in world medicine music, she focused her research and education in this field. She attended “Harmonic Singing-Overtone Singing” and “Sound Therapy” trainings with Jill Purce in London. She participated in “Sound Journey” and “Sound Bath” at Swaram Music Workshop in Auroville, India. She developed harmonic singing techniques with Nestor Kornblum in Spain and received her international instructor diploma from the “The Sound Healing Teacher Training” program, where she took part as an instructor from Michele Averard. She attended the “Archaic Instruments and Sound Journey” training program at The Sound Trance Institute in Barcelona.

She traveled to countries such as Peru, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil in order to research and learn traditional shaman music and cultures, stayed in different indigenous communities and took part in traditional nature and music festivals attended by various indigenous communities of South and North America, shamans and world medicine music musicians has received.

In Tuva Turkish Republic, VII. She participated in the International Khöömei Throat Singing Symposium and as the first female vocalist from Turkey to participate in the throat singing symposium, she took part in the concert held at the Tuva National Theatre.

She is the first female vocal performance artist in Turkey to combine traditional throat singing and harmonic singing with opera singing. She plays piano, flute, ukulele, rhythm instruments, Tibetan bowls and various instruments used in world healing music in her stage performances and compositions.