İpek Göztepe

She began her musical career at Istanbul University State Conservatory, where she studied piano on a part-time basis. She participated in various Classical Turkish Music and Classical Western Music choirs, including the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra and Emin Ongan Üsküdar Musical Society. From the age of sixteen, she started to perform professionally with various repertoires of music genres of Jazz and Blues origin, especially Soul. She studied jazz harmony, theory and arrangement with Güç Başar Gülle and jazz vocals with Randy Esen. In 2017, she won the Pulawy Jazz Workshop award at the Nardis Young Jazz Vocal Competition. In the same year, she made it to the finals of the Young Jazz auditions organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and was selected to take part in the “Jazz in the Parks” stage at the 24th Istanbul Jazz Festival. He also took part in festivals such as Akbank Jazz Festival and Zorlu PSM Jazz Festival. He continues to perform in jazz clubs and music venues around Turkey, mainly in Istanbul.