Özgür Salur

Exp. Music Therapist Özgür Salur

Özgür is a music therapist, composer, mindfulness instructor and student. He started with primary school and went to the Istanbul University State Conservatory.  After a short period of music education, he completed the Berklee School of Music and composed commercial music for 10 years. In 2014, realizing that another curiosity aroused in him and he went to Jyväskylä University in Finland and made his master in music therapy. At the Oxford University Center for Mindful Living, he studied the mindfulness training and become a trainer.

Nowadays he is at the Özyeğin University and Istanbul University at the Faculty of Medicine in the Art Therapies and Rehabilitation Program and the Music Therapy Academy  there he gives music therapy and attentive life lessons. At the same time he holds the position of Turkey Delegate at the European Music Therapy Confederation.

Özgür, who has met people from many different cultures thanks to his music, lessons and workshops in more than 20 countries, says that he loves the lands he was born in and the culture that grows in these lands, in which he grew up and feels himself most, and therefore he wants to stay here in Turkey.

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