He was born in 1977 in İzmir. He entered the Flute Department of Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory in 1991 and graduated in 2000. In the early years of his professional music career, he worked mainly with many famous singers such as Özgün, Sertab Erener, Demir Demirkan and Şebnem Ferah; he played the flute and saxophone in the recordings of more than a hundred songs. He resigned from his position in the EBB Symphony Orchestra, which he auditioned and won, a short time later, saying that "civil service is not the right job for him". He joined the band Yeni Türkü, of which he was a member, in 2001. His first album, Barbun, was released in the fall of 2010. Artists such as Önder Focan, Derya Köroğlu, Gökçe and Engin Recepoğulları accompanied Barçın in the album. The artist, who still performs as an instrumentalist with names such as Erener and Ferah, is also an instructor at Robert College.