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Demersseman, Guillaume Tell Duo Brillant

Nicole Esposito & Rogerio Wolf, flutes with Fernando Perez, piano. I Congres International de Flautas de La Plata, Argentina 6 de Julio de 2011

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  ARIFA live at WOMEX 2011 Copenhagen
  
  ARIFA life at Womex 2011 Copenhagen
  
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ARIFA Rooftop practice in Cairo, Egypt

ARIFA Rooftop practice in Cairo, Egypt

17 april 2011 hotel Dahab downtown Cairo.

Song: Sundance by Alex Simu

Mehmet Polat ( Turkey ) Ud & vocals...

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ORIENT EXPRESS ORCHESTRA on International Guitar Festival - Trzesacz 2011

Orient Express Orchestra on International Festival of Guitar Music in Trzesacz - 23.06.2011.

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ARIFA @ MCN Showcase, Melkweg

Mehmet Polat (Turkey) ud & vocals Osama Abdulrasol (Babylon) kanun, Alex Simu (Romania) sax, clarinet & live laptop,

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ARIFA live @ the BIMHUIS

Arifa live @ the Bimhuis12 feb 2010

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Osama Abdulrasol - kanun

Alex Simu - sax, clarinet & live electronics

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Shajarian, Rumi, "Bi to beh sar nemishavad...".

Ostad Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Homayoon Shajarian and Rumi Qazal # 553, from the DVD:Bam concert.

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URFALIYAM BAGLIYAM CABIR DAGDAN

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Arifa - Mehmet Polat/ Silk Road

Silk Road is composed by Mehmet Polat

Sjahin During - percussie, Osama Abdulrasol - gitaar en kanun, Alex Simu - sax/ klarinet, Mehmet Polat - Ud

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Arifa - Yar Ali

Arifa: Sjahin During - percussion, Osama Abdulrasol - kanun, Alex Simu - sax/ klarinet, Mehmet Polat - Ud

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DİKKAT!! Kanun Show 2 - BALAT

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DİKKAT!! Kanun Show - BALAT

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Mehmet Polat & Metropole Orchestra @ Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

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Mehmet Polat plays his composition: Silk Road for 'Het Nationale Suikerfeest' show ...

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Mehmet Polat - Pesendide

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Silk Road Project: Kayhan Kalhor

An interview with Silk Road Ensemble member Kayhan Kalhor, kamancheh player and composer from Iran.

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Mehmet Polat - Pesendide

The Turkish UD-player Mehmet Polat is playing his own composiotion, PESENDIDE.

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Mehmet Polat is an Amsterdam based Ud player and Composer, he invented his own 'Advanced Left Hand Technique' on the ud. Has been working with contemporary & classic jazz orchestras and prestigious musicians from Amsterdam and beyond, such as Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Metropole Orchestra, Theo Loevendie. Ud player Mehmet Polat comes from Urfa, where has a great ancient culture of Mesopotamia / Turkey. After Alewiten & Turkish traditional music experience from Urfa and Istanbul, he had his new approach on the ud on style and technique wise. Experienced diversed styles as Indian ragas, Flamenco, Paganini caprices, Jazz, Persian, Arabic music. Mehmet Polat is founder of the new ensemble ARIFA'.

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Mehmet Polat was born as a second youngest member of a big family with 9 children, in an ancient city called 'Sanliurfa' which is located in ancient Northern Mezopotamia, South & East of Turkey. He opened his eyes to world with very strong Turcoman & Alevi traditions and culture and ancient city culture of Urfa which has influences from Persian, Arabic, Kurdish and diverse cultures thgough numerous civilizations from past. He started music with the Turkish folk instrument "baglama" when he was 5 years old. He practiced Turkish Alevi music and traditional music from city culture of Sanliurfa.

After the age of 17, he moved to Istanbul, and started to Classical Turkish Music practice and switched to Ud, practiced from Sharif Muhittin Targan's school. After Targan's method, Mehmet started researching advanced techniques on the ud. With a long process of research and practise, he invented his first version of a new left hand technique on the ud, that was influenced by violin. With his own practice & researches he studied Classical Turkish and Classical Western music for 4 years in bachelor programme of Yildiz Technical University, Art & Music faculty. Beside his self Ud study and own research, he met almost all Turkish Classical Ud masters from Istanbul got the advices, but he had never got any regular ud lessons.

Besides of the benefits of the high technical possibilities, he always expanded his musicality into different styles on the ud. As his ever ongoing researches will always be continuing, he had some influences of Turkish folk, Arabic, Azeri, Persian, Flamenco and Jazz in his ud playing. By saving traditional value and sound of ud, Mehmet Polat was decisive to break-down the technical limits of the ud, he tried out on ud some of Niccolo Paganini's caprices and transcribed them which were technically impossible. He played the 5th, 12th and 17th caprices which is the first time Paganini's Caprices are played on the Ud.

Mehmet Polat is interested in Indian music and practicing Indian music on the Ud, by generating some new techniques to being able to play Indian embellishments. He is studied in Master programm at Rotterdam Conservatory(CODARTS); he gave the thesis of A combination between Indian Ragas and Turkish makams.

Worked with:

Theo Loevendie, Maarten Altena, Netherlands Blazers ensemble, Metropole Orchestra, Het Gelders Orcehestra, Erol Sayan, Ozer Ezel, Asli Ozel, Cihat Hircin, Erhan Bahci, Laurens van Rooyen, Sjahin During, Osama Abdulrasol, Alex Simu, Jorge Isaac, Esra Pehlivanli, Enric Monfort, Mattijs Koene, Heiko Dijker, Mirjam Rietberg, Bence Huszar, Praful Schroder, Michel Banabila, Bassem Hawar, German Popov, Maria Markesini.

Played in:

Concertgebouw(Amsterdam), Muziekgebouw(Amsterdam), Bimhuis, Vondelpark, De Doelen, De Spiegel, Philarmonie(Haarlem), Dr Anton Philipsezaal, Vredenburg, Musis Sacrum, Podium Mozaiek, WMDC, Zuiderpershuis(Antwerpen), Muziekpublique(Brussels), Ataturk Culture Centre(istanbul), Cemal Resit Rey(Istanbul) and many others in Turkey, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, UAE/Dubai, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, MEXICO and CUBA.

Hometown

Urfa, Turkey

Country

Netherlands

Occupation

Musician, Ud player from Turkey, living in Amsterdam.

Schools

YTU, Istanbul
CODARTS, Rotterdam

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