Mircan is a musician, a civil engineer and a professional earthquake engineer. The first album she put out was Bizim Ninniler (Our Lullabies), a first of its kind, which was followed by Kül (Ashes).
Mircan’s family comes from the Megrel ethnic group who migrated to Turkey from Batumi, Georgia. After completing middle school and graduating from Nisantasi Girl’s High School in Istanbul, she studied at Bogaziçi University and completed a master's degree. In addition to her musical work, she works with advanced engineering technology. She started singing very early, in infancy, preferring to sing adult songs, rather than those for babies and children. Singing with orchestras in wedding ceremonies gradually became an ordinary activity for her. At an early age, her singing of classical Turkish Music would produce smiles of surprise in her listeners.
She has studied music with private music teachers. Started performing in front of audience when she was a child. Performed with the Classical Turkish Music Choir of the University for four years. Performed and written songs with her band for six years during the university years. She operates her own engineering company dealing with advanced engineering and seismic technologies acting as the representative of FIP INDUSTRIALE S.p.A based in Italy. Directed several important international engineering projects. Trained on advanced engineering and seismic technologies in France, Italy, and Jordan as well as her main land Turkey.
While she was studying ethnic music, she really enjoyed Bosnian and Georgian music, so she performed songs in those languages on her second album, Kül, together with Anatolian folk songs. Mircan wrote the music and most of the words on her next album, Sâlâ, which is a musical journey that fuses east and west, transposing dominant culture with minority elements and reconciling them in a musical synthesis of emotions.
She carved out a niche for herself on the music scene with the albums Bizim Ninniler and Kül, which she put out in 2005. She was also invited to contribute an improvisational dirge and lullaby for Bir Beyaz Ölüm, an album produced by the Ministry of Culture in commemoration of the soldiers who died at Sarikamis. That album features accomplished traditional musicians and closes with an improvisational dirge and lullaby recorded by cellist, Ugur Isik.
In 2006, she expanded the operational scope of her company which operates in advanced engineering and earthquake technologies and founded UCM (UnCatalogued Music Production), which implements an idealistic philosophy of working with independent culture and art projects.
She still has many music projects up her sleeve which she is determined to bring to life.
Discography:
To be released in April 2008
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Personal Web Site:
www.mircan.net
Label's web site:
www.ucmproduction.com
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