A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he has deepened his studies on different types of Middle Eastern folk music. He learned string instruments and studied makam music theory with Efrén López and Christos Barbas, rabab agano with Ustad Daud Khan Sadozai, baglama with Mustafa Dogan and Cihan Turkoglu, and kopuz with Erkan Ogur. In the universe of percussion, he learned Afro-Cuban music with Justo Pelladito, drums with Michael Weis and tombak with Bijan Chemirani. The sound universe of this musician is based on modal music, an essential characteristic of Eastern Mediterranean music.