Engin Gürkey was born in Istanbul in 1967. He began his study of music in 1976 in the percussion department of Istanbul Municipal Conservatory. A 1992 graduate of the Istanbul University State Conservatory, Gürkey became a member of the teaching faculty at this institution the same year. In 1994, he completed his Doctorate degree, also in the percussion department.
Gürkey plays classical percussion as well as Latin American and African percussion instruments. In addition to his work as a studio musician, he has performed in severla concerts and festivals with the Gürkey Percussion Workshop which he founded in 2000, the Engin Gürkey Percussion Ensemble and the Engin Gürkey Ensemble.
In 2003, he designed the P-FX "Hand and Stick" cymbals which bear his name, produced for the first time by Istanbul Mehmet Cymbals. In 1992, he founded Istanbul Vurmalı Çalgılar and in 2006, he founded Zilli, Turkey's first and only all female percussion ensemble.
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