Yaman Akdogan
About
Yaman Akdogan was born in Izmir, Turkey in 1986. He started music by playing guitar at the age of 11. He added the bass to his skills to fill in the bassist position in the school band. Later in high school, borrowing some jazz recordings from a pianist friend, he started getting into jazz music. While maintaining his degree in Laboral Economics in college, he studied jazz music theory and performance with well- known jazz educator in Turkey, Omur Gidel. He performed in jazz clubs and festivals with many different bands locally and nationally around Turkey.
In 2008, while performing at Berklee College of Music Auditions in Athens, Greece as an accompanist bass player for his friends, he was recognized by Ron Savage, Chair of the Ensemble Department of the time, invited to auditions and got acceptance to Berklee College of Music as a scholarship student. In 2010 he was invited as a scholarship recipient to Siena Jazz Academy Summer Program in Siena, Italy where he studied with great jazz musicians as Ricardo Del Fra, Furio Di Castri, Scott Colley, Anders Jormin, Avishai Cohen(trumpet) and Ferenc Nemeth. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2013 with performance degree where he studied with great musicians as Whit Browne, Lincoln Goines, Danny Morris, Steve Bailey, John Patitucci, George Garzone, Hal Crook and Ron Mahdi. His performance credits include world renowned musicians as Avishai Cohen(trumpet), Ferenc Nemeth, Oscar Stagnaro, Lincoln Goines, Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Paul Brown and many others. He currently performs over U.S and Europe and teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the Music Departmen at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Massachusetts.
I am a member of three great bands that performs locally and tours nationally around the country. My performance credits include world renowned musicians as Avishai Cohen(trumpet), Ferenc Nemeth, Oscar Stagnaro, Lincoln Goines, Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Paul Brown and many others. I currently perform over U.S and Europe and teaches bass as an Adjunct Professor at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Massachusetts. Paul Brown & The Killing Devils is one of the bands that I perform with, which is an original music project in the style of Pogressive Rock. Some of the venues we performed are; Whisky a Go Go (Hollywood), Hard Rock Cafe Boston and House of Blues Boston. We just released our album with the name ''Res Judicata''. Our new record is on it's way to be released in the following monhts.
Recent Achievement: I've recently performed 3 concerts with the Grammy Nominated Multi-Instrumentalist Mehmet Ali Sanlikol as part of his jazz trio project. Our concert at The Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge, Ma was packed with fans. We performed arrangements of Mehmet's original compositions as well as some Turkish Traditional songs. The crowd seemed to have a lot of fun and we had a very positive feedback after the show. It was such a fun project that lasted about 6-8 months.
Performance credits include world renowned musicians as Avishai Cohen(trumpet), Ferenc Nemeth, Oscar Stagnaro, Lincoln Goines, Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Paul Brown and many others. Yaman Akdogan currently performs over U.S and Europe and teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the Music Department at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Massachusetts.
First and foremost, I try to discover their musical interest. What excites them musically the most is what will inspire them to practice, so I try to focus on the bands and musicians they want to sound like. Then I create a structure and a plan to make them reach their musical goals in a most efficient and quicker way.