With an outstanding background as a musician and years of teaching experience, Seda Demir Ortolina carries both her passion and her expertise, helping you believe & achieve!

I have a degree in BA, a postgraduate certificate in IT and a Higher Diploma in Guitar. Born in Istanbul, I received my tuition from the first jazz-rock fusion guitarist of my home country, Mustafa Donmez. Starting from my early teenage years, and I have a long history of playing experience.

 

I graduated from the Higher Diploma in Guitar program at The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) in London. For several years, I have played & recorded in various bands as the lead guitarist and singer. As well as supporting many acts as a guitarist and a vocalist both in the UK and in other countries; I did singing, songwriting and playing the guitar for my London-based originals band named Postmodern Hope and we actively performed for three years until early 2015. In 2015, I formed Playground, an original progressive rock trio. You can watch our live performance here. I also collaborated with Savas Atmaca, co-wrote five songs with him, and released a 5-song EP in 2016. You can listen to it here. 

I performed acoustically as a solo live act on a national TV channel in Turkey in the summer of 2014. You can watch it here. You can also find other links to my videos on the Videos page.