Flow of the heart - live ep
Minga Festival, Sweden, Gothenburg, 2025. Solo electro acoustic performance
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Solo - Fano Jazz Festival / Italy 29.07. 2025
Solo - Lapinlahti Film Festival / Helsinki 24.08. 2025
Sofra Trio - Blackbox 08.09. 2025 (for a business panel discussion)
Sofra Trio - Kannelmaki / Helsinki 19.09. 2025
Minga Festivalen / Sweden 22-28.09. 2025
Orchestra - Nomad Festival / Helsinki 04.10. 2025
Orchestra - Global Club Night - Etnosoi 07.11. 2025
Duo with Kari Ikonen - Etnosoi 13.11. 2025
Sofra Trio - Oulu Jazz Festival 14.11. 2025
Solo - Sellosali / Helsinki 12.11. 2025
Orchestra performance - Global Fest 11.12. 2025
Sofra Trio - Fredrik Pacius Symposiumi IV / (Re)imagining diversity and difference as core strengths of a thriving cultural field in Finland - 11.12.2025
Re-Dreaming - experimantal improvisaiton orchestra by Iida Vilhelmiina - Musiikitalo, 28.03.2026.
Musiking and Poetry Duo - 3.04.2026 Malmö, Sweden
Musiking and Poetry Duo - 4.04.2026 Gothenburg, Sweden
Sofra Trio - Global Orchestra, Musiikitalo, Sonore - 15.05.2026
Sofra Trio - Kotka Festival - 23.07. 2026
Duo improvisation performance with Jussi Reijonen, Music Heal Festival, 1.8.2026.
Sofra Trio - Espoo Cultural Festival, Tapiola Concert Hall - 20.08.2026
Sofra Trio - Terre Sonore, Italy - 23.08.2026
Sofra Trio - Interdream: Where We Meet in Sound, Black Box-Musiikitalo, 8.09.2026
Nomads Festival with Aki Rissanen + Sofra Trio - Vuotalo, 3.10.2026
'Volver Siguiendo' orchestra by Manuel Rosales - Nomads Festival 7.10.2026
Awakening orchestra by Mehrnoosh Zolfagari - Svenska Teatern 19.12.2026
Wishamalii & Friends - G LiveLab Tampere, 14.01.2027
Wishamalii & Friends - Turku Jazz Festival, 15.01.2027
Aki Rissanen + Sofra Trio - Sellosali, 24.02.2027
Intervıew wıth Genelec
HOI - Skoll World Forum
Music is more than entertainment - it’s a call to listen deeply, collaborate, and build connections across boundaries.
Videos
New Live Performance , Morgenland Festival 2023 / Germany
Harmony Tracks Ambassador of Genelec
Melisa Yıldırım - Velvet
October 2024.
Interview : https://www.genelec.com/harmony-tracks#popup-96ID7bCEl9cM-1TDt2PWl9iMh8wsEL1Rr2x
Videos
Etnosoi! festival, Finland.
Solo electroacoustic performance.
About Instrument
The Kamancha-Kemane-Kamancheh ; is the oldest instrument which utilises strings from central Asia and the Eastern hemisphere. The name of the instrument varies in various regions due to language differences. This family of instruments has more than 3000 years of history. The fascinating and mystical sounds created are a culmination of hundreds of years of development which has presented us with the instrument we recognise today.
In its earliest form the Kamancha had one string, but due to the demand for a more enhanced experience of sound, additional strings where attached throughout the instruments lifespan and today we are presented with a five stringed instrument.
In the Anatolian region this instrument was used by the Yoruk Turkmen's and is referred to as the Kemane. Most of the Kemane from this region as produced using local gourd. The Kamancha-Kemane, is an instrument which is still to this day evolving, and although there are many different versions of it today they all are bound by a single deep rooted ancestry.
It has been used in a multitude of different cultures stretching from the Turkish, Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Persian and Armenian folk music for hundreds if not thousands of years, and continues to make appearances in an even more diverse range of musical styles and cultures.
email: info@melisayildirim.com
Improvisation album
Hues of Imagination
The uniqe journey of two different traditions and musical memories.
This album is the intuitive encounter of consciousnesses..
Tabla & Kamancha
Dreamer (solo composition for kamancha/kemane)
Wow Women of the World Festival
(London/Istanbul)
for cat Maya (with Lute/Lavta)
Kedi Maya için beste.
Kendisinden ilham alarak yaptığım bu kompozisyon için ona minnettarım. :)
a composition for cat maya.
I am grateful to her for this composition I made inspired by her. :)
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