MERIC FIRATLI 

Started her musical training at State Polyphonic Children Choir, under the Ministry of Culture where she has studied with Prof. Saadettin Unal, in 1991.

In 1994 – won the auditions of Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatoire and started her violin studies with Prof. Server Ganiev. From 1998 on, she continued her violin studies with Tayfun Bozok and graduated in 2004. 

In 2005 she was accepted, with a free scholarship, to the master of music  programme at the University of Bilkent, Faculty of Music and Performing Arts as the student of Prof. Server Ganiev and  continuing her violin studies there with Vseslava Kudinova graduated in 2009.

She has performed at national and international concerts and festivals as a member of the following Orchestras: Academic Symphonic Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Hacettepe University State Conservatoire, Mersin State Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Orchestra@Modern, Anatolian Youth Orchestra, Dokuz Eylül University Symphonic Orchestra, Bilkent Academic Symphonic Orchestra.

She started to work as a member of Ankara State Opera and Ballet Orchestra in 2003 and worked there until 2009. In 2009, passing the auditions of Academic Chamber Orchestra of Baskent University, she worked as a permanent staff of this orchestra till 2013. Afterwards she moved to Istanbul State Opera and Ballet Orchestra where she is still working. In the meanwhile she’s continuing sound therapy diploma program at British Academy of Sound Therapy.