Full CV available upon request. Please send an e-mail to beril@kresendobiz.com.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2025 Keychange Inspiration Award – Shortlist
2025 Impala Music Changemaker Award – Shortlist
2023 We Are Family Foundation – Youth to the Front Award
2023 SES Foundation for Equality and Solidarity – Women of the Year Award
2022 Power Music Podcast Awards – Nomination for Best Sound Design & Music
2020 PRX Google Podcasts Creator Program – Fellowship
2018 Afife Jale Theatre Awards – Nomination for Best Sound Design & Music – “Zabel”
DISCOGRAPHY AS A MUSIC PRODUCER, SOUND DESIGNER, COMPOSER
Albums
2024 Music Producer: Benim Şehrim Benim Sesim 3 (LP)
2023 Music Producer: Benim Şehrim Benim Sesim 2(LP)
2022 Music Producer: Benim Şehrim Benim Sesim (LP)
2016 Music Producer: Düşüş – (LP)
Singles
2022 Music Producer & Songwriter & Composer: Beril Sarıaltun – Kuzgun
2022 Music Producer & Composer: Beril Sarıaltun – Tersyüz
2021 Music Producer: Gayda İstanbul – Mome Mari Mome/Sar Beni Sar
Film & Theatre & Audio Drama & Exhibition
2025 Sound Designer & Composer & Music Producer: Pembe & Eflatun – (Animated short film, upcoming work)
2024 Sound Designer & Composer & Music Producer: Kara Kutu– (Live theatre, Boğaziçi Performing Arts Ensemble)
2023 Sound Designer & Composer & Music Producer: Sevgi Soysal Yaşamakta Israr Ediyor– (Live theatre, Boğaziçi Performing Arts Ensemble)
2023 Sound Designer & Composer: Postane Archeology of a Building (Audio Exhibition)
2022 Sound Designer & Composer & Music Producer: Kıvılcım – (Audio Drama)
2021 Sound Designer & Composer & Music Producer: K’nın Sesi – (Audio Drama)
2020 Composer & Music Producer: Her Güne Bir Vaka – (Live theatre, Boğaziçi Performing Arts Ensemble)
2018 Sound Designer & Composer: Artık Bir Davan Var – (Live theatre, Boğaziçi Performing Arts Ensemble)
2017 Sound Designer & Composer: Zabel – (Live theatre, Boğaziçi Performing Arts Ensemble)
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CURATOR
2025 – Artistic Director & Festival Curator: Women of the World Festival Istanbul
2022 – Artistic Director & Festival Curator: Bu Festival Bizim
2022-2024 Artistic Director & Project Curator: My City My Voice supported by the British Council
2022-2024 Music Curator: Women of the World Festival Istanbul
PRESENTATIONS & TALKS
“Advancing gender equity in music”, Zurich Music Week, August 2025
“Promoting Fundamental Rights and Freedoms: Strengthening Artistic Freedom, Gender Equality, and Inclusion in Cultural and Creative Sectors”, UNESCO 20th Anniversary Conference of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Paris, June 2025
“International Women’s Day” , Selector Behind the Music podcast, Selector Radio, March 2025
“Global Music Scene”, Sound City International Business Conference, Liverpool, April 2023
“Borealis Samtale: Future Festivals”, Borealis – A Festival for Experimental Music, Bergen, March 2023
“Sisterhood in the Music Industry”, Bozcaada Jazz Festival, Çanakkale, August 2022
“A new era. What have we learned from the last 2 years?”, Music Export Ukraine, Online, February 2022
PUBLICATIONS
Writer: “Grow Local, Grow Equal: Status of the Musician in Türkiye”, Kreşendo, May 2025
Writer: “21. Yüzyılda Festivaller Neden (Hala) Düzenlenir? -Edinburgh Festivalleri’nden Notlar– (Why Are Festivals (Still) Organized in the 21st Century? -Notes from Edinburgh Festivals)”, Mimesis, August 2022.
Translator: Elaine Aston, “Hayatları Yeniden Resmetmek (Re-figuring lives)”, Mimesis, March 2022.
Writer: “Pandemi Sürecinde Çevrimiçi Müzik Eğitimi ve Üretimi Üzerine (On Online Music Education and Production During the Pandemic Process)”, Art-izan, May 2020.
Writer: “Kozmopolit Bir Kentin Dönüşümü (Transformation of a Cosmopolitan City: From Smyrna to İzmir)”, Art-izan, Şubat 2020.
Writer: “Türkiye’de Müzik Sektörü & Dijital Platformlar Üzerine (Music Industry in Turkey & On Digital Platforms)”, Art-izan, January 2019.
Writer: “‘Huzur Bulamıyorsanız Huzuru Bozmanız Gerekiyor’ Sesiyle Akıllara Kazınmış Bir Kadın: Aretha Franklin (If You Can’t Find Peace, You Have to Disturb The Peace, A Woman Inspired by Her Voice: Aretha Franklin)”, Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar, Sayı: 36, October 2018. (ISSN: 1307-0932)