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The sound that Sinan is striving for described often as clean, lively and fresh. Even when playing technically demanding passages sounds relaxed and knows where to lean back and rip. Sinan's music is original, fresh and genuine. An uplifting experience!

Sinan's musical journey started with mandolin lessons then continued at the Ankara State Opera Children's Choir. When he was a teenager, after attending to a rock concert, he got inspired by the guitar player and intoxicated with guitar. In the beginning, he took some private lessons both for classical and electric guitar. Later he began to unlock the secrets of the instrument by himself. During his years in college he was teaching guitar privately and performing with different projects around. After finishing his studies in engineering, he won a scholarship for jazz studies and moved to Hartford, CT. Sinan formed his trio in 2005 and played numerous gigs in Connecticut since then, it is featured on Comcast's TV series "Up and Coming" as well as WWUH's "Accent on Jazz" with Maurice Robertson also had airplay for numerous times on Radio Resita Romania with Dither Schmidth. In 2005 Trio participated in the Hartford International Jazz Festival, also had an appearence on Fox News. A virtuoso of the instrument, Sinan had the privilege to play with many great musicans. To name a few he performed with Warren Byrd, Alex Nakhimovsky, Lloyd Chisholm, Mike Asetta and Craig Hartley also Sinan had the opportunities to play with Aydin Esen, Steve Davis, Nat Reeves and Jaimoe.

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