At Age 12, He Makes His Name Among The Best

The daughter of the famous percussion artist Engin Gürkey is also studying percussion, just like her father. Composing, who is only 12 years old, is honoring both his family and his country with five awards he has received in the competitions he has participated in so far. Finally, in the International Italy Percussion competition, held in Italy, he came out of 18 different countries of the world and over 100 competitors and became the winner of vibraphone in the category between the ages of 12-15. Beste successfully represented our country with the concert he gave at the Percussion Festival in addition to the awards he received while marimba was third in the same competition. He started his education in Gürkey percussion workshop at the age of one and continued his education in yuva department with the title of having won the percussion department at the age of 6 for the first time in the history of Istanbul University State Conservatory in 2009. 1 in part-time prep in 2010. His class gained the percussion section and he became a pupil of his father Engin Gürkey. “My first toys were always hit. The first thing I remember is my mother knitting skewers with paint cans and tin buckets.”The first teacher of Father Engin Gürkey, who told how he started percussion by saying, was his father, who died when he was still 8 years old. Engin Gürkey, who was also the first teacher of his daughter, was a teacher of percussion instruments.Ü State Conservatory and I.T.Finish. He teaches at the Gürkey percussion workshop in Miami, as well as the training program he has written for World Percussion and rhythms.

He is the artistic director of the National and international percussion meetings Istanbul Percussion Ensemble, Zilli and Istanbul rhythm Theatre, which he started in 2007.