Music for All
July 2022 - July 2023
SAMSUN
Music for All project aims to carry out studies to spread music to wider audiences in Vezirköprü county, which is one of the counties with the highest number of villages (rural quarters) in Turkey, and its surrounding rural counties (Havza, Ladik, Asarcık, Kavak).
Within the scope of the project, it is planned to reach young people and women who want to be educated on music in Vezirköprü county centre and rural neighbourhoods, to provide training on basic instruments with willing young people and women, to organise polyphonic concerts for the local people in the determined counties, and to organise music events for the disadvantaged rural neighbourhoods of Vezirköprü.
Vezirköprü Women's Orchestra
Vezirköprü Women's Orchestra aims to break the existing social phenomenon about the difficulty of playing an instrument and to demonstrate socially that everyone can meet with music. The main mission of the orchestra is to contribute to social efforts in the field of gender equality by demonstrating that women can play an active role in the performance of music, especially in rural areas. Active members of the women's orchestra, which continues to work on a voluntary and amateur basis, are Hilal Olgun, Emine Yılmaz, Tuğçe İleri and Canan Tanrıkulu. Reşat Gümüş provides support to the orchestra as a music instructor and mentor.
Hilal Olgun
Hilal Olgun, who continues her professional life as a health worker, is interested in music as an amateur. In 2019, she took her first step into music by joining Vezirköprü Turkish Folk Music and Polyphonic Chorus as a choir member. She learned to play drums in the Sonat Music House and joined Vezirköprü Women's Orchestra as a drummer and started to take piano lessons at the same time. She aroused social interest by sharing her musical skills with the dialysis patients she served professionally. She is still performing as a bass guitarist in Vezirköprü Women's Orchestra. She continues to develop her musical skills and voluntarily participate in social benefit activities. She is very happy that she will work towards this goal with this project.
Reşat Gümüş
Born in Vezirköprü in 1968, Reşat Gümüş is a technical trainer in the field of electrical and electronics. He has been interested in music as an amateur for 30 years. His interest in music started with the mandolin concerts of his primary school teacher Hadi İlgin. He learned to play the instrument on his own. He started his active musical life by playing the organ in the music group called Orkestra Konur in Çorum. He contributed to the musical life in the county by directing Vezirköprü Turkish Folk Music and Polyphonic Choir, which was established by the District Governor's Office in 2010. He was actively involved in the establishment of youth, health workers and women orchestras. He has adopted as his main mission to contribute to the development of social life and the active participation of women in social life in the county of Vezirköprü through music. In 2011, he took an active role in the realization of the project focused on women's empowerment, which was implemented in Tahtaköprü, Suzuz and Sarıdibek villages of Vezirköprü County. Women's Orchestra initiative, initiated in Vezirköprü county centre with the Music for All project, aims to reach more women and young people by spreading the initiative to the villages and rural areas of Samsun.
This page is published on 23 June 2022.
Last update: 2 August 2022
