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Music Pedagogue, Teacher Educator, Drummer and Musician



Qualifications:

  • Completed the (3 years) IASWECE approved Waldorf Pedagogy Early Childhood Educator Training program with the ESDD organization.

  • Completed “New European Mentorship Programme Pedagogical Approach in Music and Dance Orff-Schulwerk program” under the mentorship of Christa Coogan (2022)

  • Graduate from “Orff-Institute Postgraduate University Course: Advanced Studies in Music and Dance Education” University Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria (2019)

  • Certification program in Orff-Schulwerk, Train Trainer by “Orff-Schulwerk Merkezi Türkiye” under mentorship Prof. Dr. Ulrike Jungmair (2016)

  • Certification program in Orff-Schulwerk. Levels 1, 2, 3 by “Orff-Schulwerk Merkezi Türkiye” under mentorship Prof. Dr. Ulrike Jungmair, İstanbul, Türkiye (2015)

  • Faculty of Education, Department of Music, double bass branch, Selcuk University, Konya, Türkiye (2010)


Professional experience:

  • Since 2019 Orff-Schulwerk specialist at Kültür University, İstanbul

  • 2019 - 2022 Music and Orff-Schulwerk specialist at Medipol University, İstanbul

  • Since 2019 working at Yeni Mevsim Schools as a music teacher and project/art coordinator.

  • Since 2016 teaching Orff-Schulwerk Pedagogy in national and international seminars.

  • Since 2010 working as an instructor for the Yeditepe University Music Club 

  • Since 2010 experience teaching music to children aged 3-14

  • Since 2003 playing drum and percussion as a professional musician


Since 2018, he has been working as a volunteer education consultant in the "Music and Movement" field of KODA (Village Schools Exchange Network).

2020 - 2022 Worked as an Orff-Schulwerk Specialist in Güher&Süher Pekinel Anadolu Music Education Project

2020 - 2021 Worked as an instructor in the Ministry of National Education General Directorate of Teacher Training and Development, 1 Teacher 1000 Rhythms In-Service Training Project. 

In 2020 established his own music and dance studio that names Tak Tak Atölye.


Working and searching on Turkish and microtonal instruments in Orff-Schulwerk Pedagogy.


Discovering and researching the pedagogy of human ages with an “elemental” perspective of Waldorf and Orff-Schulwerk Pedagogy

İlkay Nişancı

Board Member

Turkey

İlkay Nişancı
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