Volkan Incuvez
Volkan Incuvez is a ney player, multi-instrumentalist, and instructor of classical Turkish music, and serves as Tapadum’s winds curator. He was born in 1983 in Giresun, Turkey, and graduated from Ege University State Turkish Music Conservatory in Izmir. He performs traditional and modal Turkish music on ney, vocals, caglama, fretless guitar, and electric guitar, always […]
Volkan Incuvez is a ney player, multi-instrumentalist, and instructor of classical Turkish music, and serves as Tapadum’s winds curator. He was born in 1983 in Giresun, Turkey, and graduated from Ege University State Turkish Music Conservatory in Izmir.
He performs traditional and modal Turkish music on ney, vocals, caglama, fretless guitar, and electric guitar, always seeking modern textures and a different musical depth in each project. Incuvez believes music can carry a harmonic character even when it is not harmonic in structure, and his arrangements aim to draw out that character while staying faithful to the inner sound and feeling of each traditional melody. His debut album Kün (2019) is the first polyphonic concept ney album, depicting a space-time journey through the breath traveling inside the ney. His second solo album Mahal (2019) is a classical Turkish music performance on ney and classical fretless guitar, with a repertoire stretching from Sultan Selim III (b. 1761) to Gevheri Sultan Fatma Osmanoğlu (b. 1904). With his Quartet he released Live Session I (2020) — reframing folk-rooted material through modern harmony, electronics, bass, synth, and drums — and Yeni Dünya (2020), recorded during the pandemic and dedicated to healthcare workers. He also creates and performs with ensembles including Hepyek, Derun, Debdebe, Ebren Trio, Kirkbinsinek, and Gozyasi Cetesi.
Volkan has appeared at the Istanbul Biennial 2017 (“Sesime Ses Ver”), the Istanbul Jazz Festival, Male Festivalen (Oslo), Linz Fest (Austria), Festival Mawazine (Rabat), Radix Music Festival (Berlin), In Festa (Bologna), the 8th Festival Strasbourg-Mediterranee (France), and the World in Sound Festival (Mannheim).
At the Tapadum Music Academy, Volkan guides students through ney technique and the makam system at the heart of classical Turkish music. He offers online lessons for every level — beginner, intermediate, and advanced — drawing on two decades of teaching experience and on the performance practice heard across his own recordings.