Orcun Berrakcay was born in 1982, in Turkey. Graduating
9 Eylul University, Faculty of Education, in music education in 2004. That same
year he started an MA in at Fine Arts Institution in musicology and did
research in autism and music. He started his PhD in 2009 in the same department
and in 2015 he graduated with research on ritual music and musicianship.
Through the Erasmus project he went to Hungary and studied for one semester in
music education. He worked with children with special educational needs as a
volunteer.
He has written about autism in Turkey, and published in
education periodicals. He established IZOT Izmir Autism Orchestra and Choir in
2013 and continues to work with children (IZOT Junior) and young people with
autism in Izmir, Turkey.
IZOT Izmir Autism Orchestra and Choir – PhD Orcun Berrakcay