Cemre Necefbaş Quartet

Singer Cemre Necefbas received national recognition as a jazz vocalist upon receiving the NTV Radio Special Award at the 2012 Nardis Young Jazz Vocal Competition, after which she moved to New York to pursue a degree in jazz. She attended The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music on a full scholarship, and worked with jazz legends like Reggie Workman, Vic Juris and Charles Tolliver, before graduating in 2018 with a dual degree. Having started her professional music career in the ‘capital of jazz’, she performed in jazz clubs and bars around New York with various bands, both as leader and side-woman. Cemre also frequently traveled to Istanbul to perform at Nardis, The Badau, 60m2 and Nublu. Her project Cemre Necefbas Quartet made their Istanbul Jazz Festival debut at 2019, and they look forward to sharing a repertoire of jazz standards and original music with the Nardis audience.