Yaman Akdogan

Yaman Akdogan was born in Izmir, Turkey in 1986. He started music by playing guitar at the age of 11. He switched to bass to fill in the bassist position in the school band. Later in high school, borrowing some jazz recordings from a pianist friend, he started getting into jazz music. While maintaining his degree in Laboral Economics in college, he studied jazz music theory and performance with well- known jazz educator in Turkey, Omur Gidel. He performed in jazz clubs and festivals with many different bands locally and nationally around Turkey. In 2008, while performing at Berklee College of Music Auditions in Athens, Greece as an accompanist bass player for his friends, he was recognized by Ron Savage, Chair of the Ensemble Department of the time, who invited him to auditions and accepted him to Berklee College of Music as a scholarship student. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2013 with performance degree on electric and acoustic bass where he studied with great musicians as Whit Browne, Lincoln Goines, Danny Morris, Steve Bailey, John Patitucci, George Garzone, Ed Tomassi, Hal Crook and Ron Mahdi. His performance credits include world renowned musicians as Avishai Cohen(trumpet), Ferenc Nemeth, Mark Walker, Oscar Stagnaro, Lincoln Goines, Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Paul Brown and many others. He currently performs over U.S and Europe and teaches bass as an Adjunct Professor at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Massachusetts.