Sungu Okan

Sungu Okan, born in Istanbul. She completed her undergraduate education at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul State Conservatory in Ethnomusicology department, she completed her master’s and doctorate studies at Social Sciences institute of Mimar Sinan University, department of Musicology. Since 2007, she has conducted researches field of Folk music in the Balkan and various parts of Anatolia. In 2017, by the scholarship of the French Consulate General of Turkey, she received the Kinetography/ Laban Movement Notation at the Paris National Superieur Conservatoire de Musique et de Dansé. She wrote articles for art magazines such as Milliyet Sanat, Picus and events for the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Art.

Since 2003, she started to work as a producer at TRT Istanbul Radio. She still prepares and presents classical music programs on channel Radio 3 affiliated with the same institution, and has been writing concert program booklets for Borusan Culture and Arts since 2006. Sungu Okan is still a member at MSGSU Istanbul State Conservatory Musicology Department, Ethnomusicology and Folklore Teaching Department.