Murat Abbas

Murat Abbas was born in 1969, Istanbul. He spent his student life in Istanbul. He started working as an auditor at a firm with the trade name Denet BDO (ex Deloitte Touche) following his “Business Administration” education at the university. He continued his audit career at Coopers & Lybrand and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Thereafter, Abbas worked for companies like Bosch-Siemens-Profilo, Superonline and Ticketturk at various positions such as “financial controller” and “finance manager”. Since 2002, when he quit his audit and finance career, he has focused on the field of music and culture-arts.Murat Abbas worked as a radio host and DJ at radio stations such as Radio Eksen, Dinamo, FG 93.7, Radyo Babylon, 92.3 from 1998 to 2012. When Abbas was working as the editor for the music and art portal which is called “Friends of Istanbul” of Istanbul Foundation of Culture and Arts, he prepared music pages for various magazines such as Aktüel, Trendsetter, Zip Istanbul. Abbas returned to the business life in 2008 as the music sector this time, after working as professional DJ at many festivals and concerts of varying sizes, and working as the curator at Radar Live. After working as an event manager at MTV Turkey, he worked as the Assistant General Manager Responsible for “Talent Buying & Booking” department at Pozitif Live, which is the largest organization firm of the nation, and Babylon, a deep-rooted music venue of Istanbul, for 5 years. During this time, he was also the acting General Manager of Babylon. Murat Abbas, who worked as the content curator for the biggest festivals of the country like Rock’n Coke and Efes Pilsen One Love, organized several concerts of varying sizes like Rihanna, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Bob Dylan, Blondie, Travis, etc.In October 2014, Murat Abbas joined Zorlu Gayrimenkul as the General Manager responsible for Zorlu Performance Arts Center. In February 2015, he was appointed as the General Manager of Zorlu PSM. Murat Abbas who still holds the said office, likes attending music festivals all around the world and collecting records as his favorite hobbies. He is the owner of the most ambitious record archives in Turkey.