He was born in Erzurum, in 1990. He completed primary and secondary school in Istanbul. Aftermath, he had started to college education in the History Department of the University of Istanbul in 2007 and he graduated from this department in 2011. At the same year, he started the master program in the same department at the branch of the History of Ottoman Institutions and Civilization and in 2014 he accomplished his master with the thesis named as “The Catalog of Music Manuscripts in Istanbul University Library”. In 2021 he completed his PhD about “güfte mecmuaları (lyric miscellanies)”.

Harun Korkmaz has started to work in the Research Institute of Turcology of Istanbul University in 2013. At the institute, he has been carrying out the secretary and editing mission of “Türkiyat Mecmuası (Journal of Turcology)” which one is the oldest academic journal in Turkey. He completed the classification and cataloging of the archive of Hüseyin Sadeddin Arel in the Institute. This archive includes one of the largest musical note collection of Turkish music. He was in England in 2018-2019 with the support of TÜBİTAK, as the guest of King's College London, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Martin Stokes. He conducted a research project on musical manuscripts in libraries in London, Oxford and Manchester. Since October 2020, he has been working as a member of the Islamic Arts Science Committee in the 2nd Edition Project of the Diyanet Encyclopedia of Islam. In addition to academic works, he took a part in hundreds of programs and the concerts to introduce classical Turkish music in many countries like Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Hungary, Latvia, Australia, Latvia, India, Nepal and the United Kingdom.

Thesis Documents

2014 - 2021

Doctorate

Istanbul University, Faculty Of Literature, Osmanlı Müesseseleri Ve Medeniyeti Tarihi Anabilim Dalı, Turkey

2011 - 2014

Postgraduate

Istanbul University, Faculty Of Literature, Tarih - Osmanlı Müesseseleri Ve Medeniyeti Tarihi, Turkey

2007 - 2011

Undergraduate

Istanbul University, Faculty Of Literature, Department of History, Turkey

2021

Doctorate

Lyric Miscellanies as a Source of Turkish Music History

Istanbul University, Research Institute of Turkology, Department of Turkish Studies

2014

Postgraduate

The Catalog of Music Manuscripts in Istanbul University Library

Istanbul University, Faculty Of Literature, Osmanlı Müesseseleri Ve Medeniyeti Tarihi Anabilim Dalı

B1 Intermediate

Arabic

A2 Elementary

Persian

B1 Intermediate

English

C1 Advanced

Uzbek

A1 Beginner

German

C2 Mastery

Azerbaijani

2013 - Continues

Research Assistant

Istanbul University, Research Institute of Turkology

Undergraduate

Introduction to Reading Ottoman Musical Sources-I

Undergraduate

Turkish Music History

Undergraduate

Literature, Music Literature, Prosody

Undergraduate

Archive Usage (Text and Sound Archive)-I

2022

Korkmaz H.

ART-SANAT, vol.18, pp.243-262, 2022 (ESCI)

2015

Korkmaz H.

Musikişinas, no.13, pp.53-55, 2015 (Non Peer-Reviewed Journal)

2015

Korkmaz H.

Musikişinas, no.14, pp.121-141, 2015 (Non Peer-Reviewed Journal)

2022

Korkmaz H.

XIX. ve XX. Yüzyılda Ortadoğu’da Osmanlı Müzik Kültürü, Hatay, Turkey, 16 - 18 May 2022, pp.16-17

2022

Korkmaz H.

The 7th INCSOS International Congress of Social Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2 - 04 June 2022, pp.192

2022

Korkmaz H.

Etnomüzikoloji Derneği 5. Kuruluş Yıldönümü Etkinlikleri, Bursa, Turkey, 10 May 2022

2022

Korkmaz H.

Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library Conference Series, Patna, India, 07 April 2022

2021

Korkmaz H.

Vefatının 124. Yıldönümünde Eyyûbî Hoca Mehmed Zekâi Dede Efendi, İstanbul, Turkey, 25 November 2021

2021

Korkmaz H.

İntercommunal Musical Geographies of Late Ottoman Istanbul, Athens, Greece, 29 October 2021, pp.10

2021

Korkmaz H.

Müzikli Söyleşi, İstanbul, Turkey, 23 February 2021

2021

Korkmaz H.

Kadim Şehir Diyarbekir Şehir Sohbetleri, İstanbul, Turkey, 31 January 2021

2020

Korkmaz H.

İrtihâlinin 747. Sene-i Devriyesinde Mevlana Celâleddîn-i Rumi, İstanbul, Turkey, 17 December 2020

2020

Korkmaz H.

Dicle Divan Sohbetleri, Diyarbakır, Turkey, 18 November 2020

2020

Korkmaz H.

Orality - Writing - Performance. Recent Developments in Music Studies and the Ottoman Lands and Beyond, 14 October 2020

2019

Korkmaz H.

İcranın Macerası ve İstanbul’da Müziğin Kesişen Kimlikleri, İstanbul, Turkey, 02 November 2019

2017

Korkmaz H.

Uluslararası Hüseyin Sadeddin Arel ve Türk Müziği Sempozyumu, İstanbul, Turkey, 13 December 2017

2017

Korkmaz H.

MSGSÜ İstanbul Devlet Konservatuarı Müzikoloji Bölümü Seminerleri, İstanbul, Turkey, 28 February 2017

2017

Korkmaz H.

100 YIL SOHBETLERİ, İstanbul, Turkey, 29 December 2017

2016

Korkmaz H.

M. Fuad Köprülü Türkoloji ve Beşeri Bilimler Sempozyumu, İstanbul, Turkey, 21 - 22 November 2016, pp.357-365

2017

Korkmaz H.

Mevlevîlik ve Kültür, İstanbul, Turkey, 09 November 2017

2017

Korkmaz H.

Yakın Dönem Türkiye Söyleşileri-25, İstanbul, Turkey, 13 October 2017

2016

Korkmaz H.

DİYARBAKIR SEMPOZYUMU, Diyarbakır, Turkey, 2 - 06 November 2016, vol.1, pp.58-60

2014

Korkmaz H.

11. Millî Türkoloji Kongresi, İstanbul, Turkey, 11 - 13 November 2014, vol.2, pp.675-680

2014

Korkmaz H.

Bilim ve Sanat Vakfı Söyleşileri, İstanbul, Turkey, 27 June 2014

2022

KORKMAZ H.

in: Cumhuriyetin 100. Yılında 100 Türk Büyüğü ~ Sanatçılar, Vahit Türk, Editor, T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Türk Kültürüne Hizmet Vakfı, İstanbul, pp.252-276, 2022

2022

KORKMAZ H.

in: Cumhuriyetin 100. Yılında 100 Türk Büyüğü ~ Sanatçılar, Vahit Türk, Editor, T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Türk Kültürüne Hizmet Vakfı, İstanbul, pp.234-251, 2022

2021

Korkmaz H.

in: Eyyûbî Mehmed Zekâî Dede Efendi, Harun Korkmaz, Editor, Eyüp Sultan Belediyesi Yayınları, İstanbul, pp.63-162, 2021

2020

Korkmaz H.

in: Gölgelenen Sultan Unutulan Yıllar - I. Mahmud ve Dönemi (1730-1754), Hatice Aynur, Editor, Dergah Yayınları, İstanbul, pp.204-216, 2020

2018

KORKMAZ H.

İstanbul Araştırmaları Estitüsü, 2018

2018

Korkmaz H.

Diyarbakır Kayapınar Belediyesi, Diyarbakır, 2018

2017

Turan F. (Editor), Temel Alemdar E. (Editor), Korkmaz H. (Editor)

İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2017

2015

Korkmaz H.

Harvard University The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Cambridge, 2015

2022 - 2025

An Exploration of Classical Turkish Music Pieces Composed Between the 15th and 18th Centuries and Conveyed by Oral Transmission in the Context of the Concepts of 'Composing’ and 'Composer': Repertoire and Transmission

TUBITAK Project

Korkmaz H. (Executive)

2020 - 2021

Acem Bûselik Mawlawi Ayin-i Sherif Recording Project

Project Supported by Other Official Institutions

Korkmaz H. (Executive)

2018 - 2019

Determination and Analysing (by musicological methodology) the Music Manuscripts (especially lyric codices) that Exist in the British Library

TUBITAK Project

Korkmaz H. (Executive)

2015 - Continues

Türkiyat Mecmuası

Editor

2017 - 2018

Rast Muzikoloji Dergisi

Committee Member

2020 - Continues

TDV İSAM

Member of Science Committee

June 2022

Musicologist: An International Journal of Music Studies

National Scientific Refreed Journal

June 2022

Türkiyat Mecmuası

National Scientific Refreed Journal

2019 - 2020

Other

Zeytinburnu Belediyesi

November 2018

Original Works

Turkish Art Music-Hüseynî/Devr-i Hindî İlâhî: Sad-sadâ-yı âh ile geçti zamânım âh âh (Güfte: İsmail-i Rumi)

May 2011

Original Works

Turkish Art Music-Nikriz/Sofyan Nefes: Ben şehid-i bâdeyem dostlar demim yâd eyleyin (Güfte: Harputlu Rifat)

November 2010

Original Works

Turkish Art Music-Segâh/Düyek İlâhî: Âsümândır kubbesi hem ahterân âvîzesi (Güfte: Ahmed Celâleddin Dede Efendi)