ASLI VUSLATERİ

Aslı Vuslateri Music

Aslı Vuslateri is a gifted Turkish percussionist whose specialty is Latin American and Cuban rhythms and who plays the whole family of percussions. She is one of very few Turkish female musicians with rare mastery over an extensive range of percussion instruments.

Born on September 8, 1981, Aslı exhibited her talent for music at an early age; she was nine years old when her elementary school teachers discovered her gift and encouraged her to take up her very first instrument, the keyboard. While enrolled at the Bursa Atatürk High School, Aslı joined the school choir, directed by Arife Koman. The group performed at a number of prestigious venues including Tayyare Kültür Merkezi and Bursa Outdoor Performance Stage. In her senior year at high school, Aslı started out on her long career in music with the private voice lessons from Ms. Koman.

Between 1995 and 1999, she furthered her music education by receiving training in Turkish Music from at the Bursa Municipal Conservatory, where Erdinç Çelikkol was the General Director for Arts. She quickly learned to play the two traditional music instruments, the oud and kudüm (small double drums). Upon the successful completion of her education, Aslı moved to Istanbul and took two years of voice lessons from Cengizhan Sönmez, one of the acclaimed radio singers on the state-owned Turkish Radio and Television broadcast agency.

BIOGRAPHY

Aslı Vuslateri Music

Aslı was selected to study in the Turkish Music and Popular Western Music departments at the Müjdat Gezen Performing Arts Center and Conservatory in 2000. She later chose to continue her education in the Western Music area. During this stage of her music training, Aslı played the guitar and oud; she also sang. At this critical juncture in her music career, she was inspired by her rhythm instructor Utku Ünal and found herself driven to the drums and other percussion instruments. She graduated from the Müjdat Gezen Performing Arts Center in 2004 and she herself trained the next classes of Stage and Performance student for the next two years as Assistant Instructor. It was also in 2004 that Aslı participated in Okay Temiz’s workshops and was introduced to African rhythms. At these workshops, she learned to play the Djembe.

Aslı expanded the boundaries of repertoire farther by studying Latin American and Cuban Rhythms with Engin Gürkey, Faculty Member in the Percussion Instruments Department of the Istanbul State Conservatory, between 2006 and 2008. She shortly joined Turkey’s first all-women percussion band, “Zilli Perküsyon,” which was founded and directed by Mr. Gürkey. She soon started playing with acclaimed Turkish singers such Sezen Aksu and Özcan Deniz as part of the legendary Açık Hava Konserleri (Istanbul Outdoors Concerts and Performance). In 2008, Aslı recorded with Turkey’s top vocal artists including Nilüfer, Erol Evgin, Nükhet Duru, Demet Sağıroğlu, Aşkın Nur Yengi, Seyyal Taner, for the album “Zilli Perküsyon,” produced by Ossi Müzik. She also performed live with the group at numerous prestigious events and venues and had a cameo as a percussionist in the movie “Vicdan” (Conscience).

PORTFOLIO

Aslı Vuslateri Music

In 2012, Aslı began playing with the band “Yolda,” while improving her percussion skills and partaking various projects along with numerous groups and musicians. She also kept on participating in “workshops” and special interactive corporate projects. In the same year, she assisted Jozi Levi, an acclaimed performer of Brazilian music and percussion instruments.

In 2015, Aslı joined Aydın Karabulut’s “Drum Circles” project. Between 2009 and 2017, she performed with Buzuki Orhan Osman, Cihan Okan & Ozan Doğulu, Aydın Karabulut, Murat Çekem, Attila Özdemiroğlu & Garo Mafyan, Ege, Suat Suna, Sibel Alaş, Kaan Öztürk, Harun Kolçak, and Güvenç Dağüstün. In addition, from 2015 to 2017, she took stage at various  venues, hotels, performing spaces in Bodrum, the posh and bustling Turkish holiday resort, as part of “Son Production.” Salih Ata, Sinan Erkoç, Erdinç Erişmiş, Suat Suna, Mine Çağlıyan were some of the renowned Turkish singers and DJs Aslı has had the privilege of working with in Bodrum.

In 2017, Aslı Vuslateri started giving percussion lessons at “Gerçek Sanat Atölyesi” (The Real Art Atelier), founded by Bilal Çatalçekiç, a successful Turkish stage actor. In that same period she played percussions in the “Taş Plak” Symphony Orchestra, founded and conducted by Neyzen Özsarı.

EINDHOVEN

Aslı Vuslateri Music

At the end of 2018, her vision changed and decided to move to the Netherlands. Apart from local bands such as “Betty Blue” and “Caponata”, she worked with Selim Doğru, Ezgi Köroğlu and Karsu.

In July 2020, she established her own company  “Aslı Vuslateri Music”. She started giving rhythm lessons and organizing workshops.

During the pandemic period, she took part in the project “Sakin Seyir” and sang two songs of Metin Tapkı in the album “Yel Eser”. On this occasion, she started to sing again by focusing on her vocal studies, which she had been taking a break for many years.

He accompanied Zeynel Günbek’s (a folk-indie artist/group from Turkey) group to their first concerts in Europe as a percussionist and vocalist.

Asli Vuslateri’s intention is to live in Europe for many more years and will continue to create great music for the sake of art and for her own mood.