Cem Aldemir & Deniz Gündüz
Founders / Managing Partners
Founders of Bold Music, overseeing the company’s live entertainment, investment and strategic operations.
Producing more than 50 concerts a year across Türkiye — nationwide tours, arena shows and large-scale urban festivals in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara.
Work with us
Bold Music was founded in 2018 by Cem Aldemir and Deniz Gündüz, both of whom had already built extensive experience in Türkiye’s live entertainment industry prior to establishing the company.
Today, Bold Music has grown into an established independent live entertainment company, producing more than 50 concerts annually and welcoming hundreds of thousands of music fans across its events.
Our experience extends well beyond live entertainment. Over the years, Bold Music has also provided artist management, recorded music, publishing and commercial partnership services for some of Türkiye’s leading artists, including Can Ozan, Perdenin Ardındakiler, Anıl Piyancı and Patron.
Through these activities, we have managed collaborations between our artists and global brands, overseen publishing rights and developed long-term artist careers.
This combination gives Bold Music a perspective that goes beyond that of a traditional promoter: we understand the business from the perspective of the promoter, the artist and the management team.
Bold Music produces concerts across Türkiye, with a particular focus on the country’s three largest music markets: Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara. We work with many of Türkiye’s biggest artists on both nationwide tours and major one-off shows.
Bold Music also manages the event programming and operations of Izmir Arena, one of Türkiye’s major live entertainment venues.
We organize nationwide tours for leading Turkish artists including Mor ve Ötesi, Motive and Dolu Kadehi Ters Tut. Our touring relationships with these artists typically include approximately 10 concerts per artist annually, with individual shows operating at six-figure USD budgets.
Bold Music has also promoted the last three Türkiye tours of Altın Gün, the internationally acclaimed Dutch-Turkish psychedelic rock band that has become one of the most successful global representatives of contemporary Turkish psychedelic music.
Our work with Altın Gün has given our team direct experience in delivering multi-city tours for an internationally touring act, combining global touring standards with our local production and market expertise.
Bold Music regularly produces major concerts with artists including Manifest · Şebnem Ferah · Duman · Sertab Erener · Adamlar · Zeynep Bastık · Edis and many more.
From venue contracting and ticketing strategy to production, marketing, hospitality and on-site operations, our team manages the entire concert lifecycle.
One of the most exciting events for us this year was Manifest, Türkiye’s new-generation girl group. We hosted their highly anticipated return to the stage at Izmir Arena — their first concert in Türkiye after an extended break. The show sold out all 12,000 tickets in just nine minutes and generated approximately USD 500,000 in gross revenue.
Some of 2026 shows.
Bold Music has produced large-scale urban music festivals in Izmir, Istanbul and Ankara, attracting audiences of up to 30,000 people per event.
One of our flagship projects, Festivalland Izmir, became one of the city’s major music festivals and was produced for five consecutive years. Its line-ups brought together some of Türkiye’s most successful artists, including Mor ve Ötesi · Athena · maNga · Duman · Yıldız Tilbe · Ceza and many more.
Producing festivals at this scale requires substantial financial and operational capabilities. Individual festival editions operated with production and artist budgets exceeding USD 500,000, managed directly by Bold Music.
Our experience covers the full festival operation — from artist booking and production to venue management, ticketing, marketing, sponsorship, hospitality, security and audience operations.
Previous festivals.
Bold Music operates with an experienced core team supported by an extensive network of production, technical and operational professionals across Türkiye.
As we expand our international touring activities, we have built a dedicated structure combining international booking expertise with strong local production and operational capabilities.
Founders / Managing Partners
Founders of Bold Music, overseeing the company’s live entertainment, investment and strategic operations.
International Booking & Artist Relations
Former General Manager of Charmenko, Feriha leads Bold Music’s international artist relations, booking and financial processes.
Production Manager
Production manager and sound engineer working with leading artists including Melike Şahin and Emre Fel, while also managing production across Bold Music events.
Production Manager
Experienced lighting engineer for major Turkish artists including Athena and Can Ozan, Mehmet also oversees production management across Bold Music events.
Managing Director & Chief Technology Officer
Mustafa is a technology executive with extensive experience in ticketing platforms and event technology. He was part of the founding-stage development team behind Bubilet, one of Türkiye’s leading ticketing platforms, and is the founder of Ticketnjoy, a ticketing technology and infrastructure provider.
He has also developed and delivered custom software solutions for government institutions in Türkiye and Azerbaijan.
Operations & Hospitality Manager
Operations Manager of Izmir Arena, Ferhat oversees travel, accommodation and hospitality operations for our artists and touring teams.
His previous hospitality experience includes senior sales roles with international hotel groups including Hilton, giving our team direct expertise in complex artist and touring hospitality operations.
Over the past years, Bold Music has worked repeatedly with many of Türkiye’s largest artists and successfully delivered major concerts, nationwide tours and large-scale music festivals. We have built the infrastructure, local market knowledge, financial capacity and production network required to operate at scale.
Beginning in 2027, we are entering the next phase of Bold Music. Our primary strategic focus will shift toward international touring — bringing established international artists to Türkiye and producing their concerts in:
We see significant potential in the Turkish live entertainment market and believe our local infrastructure, promoter experience and operational capabilities create a strong foundation for international shows.
Rather than approaching international shows as occasional projects, our objective is to build a consistent and long-term international concert business in Türkiye. And we believe the right international partnerships will be an important part of that journey.
Bold Music can act as Live Nation’s experienced local execution partner for selected international shows in Türkiye.