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In 2003, Bilen Işiktaş was accepted at the Departments of Foundation Studies and Voice at ITU State School of Art for Turkish Music. He has studied the art of creating advanced and rare sounds on the instrument, including its fifth octave, and has embarked on a methodological study of playing positions he developed himself. In terms of performing a piece of composition, Bilen Işiktaş adopts Tokcan’s musical approach his meeting with Tokcan thus played a significant role in his musical life. In the same year, he met Yurdal Tokcan, whom he regards as his idol, and benefited extensively from his expertise in many subjects. In that year, the guidance of Esin ŞentÃŒrk, one of the lecturers in the Department of Voice at ITU State School of Art for Turkish Music, enabled Bilen Işiktaş to receive oud lessons from Ertan Özkaya, a lecturer at the same conservatory.

He advanced his abilities on the instrument in self-study until 1999 when he met with the oud composer Polat Tezel, whose style he adopted, and continued to pursue his studies independently until 2002. His first encounter with the oud was in 1996, when he took oud lessons under the supervision of Cengiz Sarıkuş from Veysel Music House in Aksaray (Istanbul). Born in 1980 in Istanbul, Bilen Işiktaş completed his primary and secondary education there.