Reşide Ahu Ünalp

Born in 1974 in Bursa, Reşide Ahu Ünalp studied Computer Programming at Boğaziçi University, then Latin and Greek Literatures at Ankara University. Later on, due to her deep interest in music, she started a career in the music market. While importing albums and hi-fi music equipment, she has also published a large number of articles in various magazines and newspapers. In 2002, she started to improve her knowledge in the field of analog records and studied Sound and Recording Technologies with Doruk Öztürkcan who is a lecturer at Bilgi University Music Department. Afterwards she went to Norway and participated in the album recording sessions of the group called Tamburada as a producer. Reşide Ahu Ünalp, who founded the Mikrop Gramofon company with Ömer Serhan Bali in 2005, has been continuing her activities for Turkey's Classical Music Magazine Andante for many years as the concessionaire and administrative director of the magazine on behalf of the Bali Ünalp partnership since 2019.