Yaş:

55

City/ District:

Kütahya / Kütahya

Phone:

0 (532) 735 19 59

E-mail:

yzbeyduz@hotmail.com

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Born in Erzurum in 1970, Beydüz graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) State Conservatory of Turkish Music, Department of Music Technologies and Instrument Construction in 1988. After completing his master’s degree at ITU Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Turkish Folk Music, Beydüz started to work as a lecturer at Kütahya Dumlupınar University (DPU) in 1994, where he took on various administrative duties such as dormitory directorate, DPU Kütahya Folklore Research and Application Centre Directorate, and Head of Health, Culture and Sports Department, and continues to work at the same institution. Beydüz started to take bağlama lessons from Selami Kızılkaya in 1978. He performed bağlama in the children’s choir performance committee under the direction of Betül Dövenler until 1982 in Erzurum Folk Dances Folk Songs Association, and started to take note and manner lessons from Yaşar Yokuş after settling in Bursa in 1982. In 1986, Beydüz took part in the Uludağ University Turkish Folk Music (TFM) Choir, directed by Yaşar Kemal Alim, as a bağlama player and in 1988 he won the first prize in the Milliyet Newspaper Inter-High School TFM Solo Voice Competition for the best male soloist in Turkey. Beydüz took lessons from teachers such as Nida Tüfekçi, Yücel Paşmakçı, Irfan Kurt, Afşin Emiralioğlu, Cafer Açın, Ibrahim Coşgun, Mustafa Aydın Öksüz and Cahit Atasoy at the ITU Turkish Music State Conservatory, and frequently travelled to Kütahya to perform choral and folk dance music with Ibrahim Selman Coşgun, whom he met in 1989. Beydüz, who worked with Alim and Coşgun as a baglama player in choirs and folk dances for many years, and who came second in Türkiye at the Interuniversity TFM Choir Competition with the DPU TFM Choir, which he had conducted as a choir conductor in 1996, received various degrees in folk dances, TFM choir and solo voice competitions in many universities, institutions and organisations. Beydüz, who continued the workshop courses he took from his teachers Açın, Coşgun and Öksüz at ITU Instrument Construction Department after graduation and continued to construct and repair many instruments such as bağlama, oud, guitar, qanun, violin and cello, presented papers on music and cultural values in various national and international symposiums, participated in national and local television programmes on folk music and folk dances and worked as a bağlama and solo performer, soloist, folk dance music conductor and ensemble manager in many countries. Beydüz served as a Müzisyen İcra Sanatçısı (musical artist) of the Ministry of Culture in 1991, as a member of the TFM Selection Committee of the General Directorate of Youth and Sports in 2006, and as the Head of Kütahya Municipality City Council Music and Folk Dances Group between 2016 and 2019. He continues to work as a choir conductor at DPU TFM Choir, 7’den 77’ye THM Korosu and various secondary education, youth centre and public education centre choirs. Beydüz, who was awarded the Intangible Cultural Heritage Bearer Artist Promotion Card in the field of instrument construction by the General Directorate of Research and Education of Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2017, is married and has one child.