Onur Akay was born in Ankara on April 28, 1977. He won Istanbul University’s Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music in 1995, and continued his music education for six years, with greatest professors of the period; Süheyla ALTMIŞDÖRT, İsmail Hakkı ÖZKAN, Muazzam SEPETÇİOĞLU, Seha OKUŞ, Alaaddin ADAY, Fatih SALGAR and Lale YÜZÜGÜLDÜ He later won Haliç University’s Turkish Music Voice training department. He continued undergraduate education for four years with renowned professors, like Prof. Dr. Alaeddin Yavaşca, Assoc. Prof. Çetin Körükçü, Dr. Yalçın Çetinkaya, Dr. Binnaz Çelik, Şehnaz Uğurel, Osman Kut Dinçer, Naci Madanoğlu, Nilgün Onat and Nuriye Eracar and graduated in 2006.He received first musical training from Nevin İnam KARINDAŞ, herself trained by Münir Nurettin SELÇUK. Onur Akay started to play the “kanun” with his professor Turan İnam. He developed his skills at small age at Turkish Art Music Choir, directed by State television TRT’s Ankara Radio maestro Gültekin AYDOĞDU.He prepared and presented Turkish Art Music programs on Ankara radios. He received speech and diction lessons from famous actor Semih SERGEN. He worked as announcer and speaker for three years. Onur Akay’s first play was Güngör DİLMEN’s “Kurban” (Victim), where he played “Murat,” and composed his first dong at the age of fourteen.A member of Poets’ and Composers’ Association and MESAM, Onur Akay’s poems are published at TRT Radios and Televisions, private radios and channels, several newspapers, magazines and anthologies, and he has several awards.
Onur Akay started as a columnist in “ANA,” a cultural magazine, and he composed several march style pieces for important days.His poems are available in “Onur Akay with his Poems,” compositions in “Onur Akay with his compositions,” all details of his life and his experiences with great names of Music in his book “Steps to Fame.”