Marche Event

In 2009 Murat A. Aydın founded the Marche company, providing service in organization, decor, entertainment, fairs, ceremonies and events. Marche Event Management has been operating in the sector for almost five years. Combining the love of humanity that is his chosen life’s view with the experience he gained in different periods of his life, his time in the theater, his talent for writing and for architecture, Aydın remains one of the most impressive names in the sector.

Stage Designer and Director

Wedding Planner

Concept Designer

Combining art and theater, architecture and staging, design and dance, today Marche is one of the most important companies in event design and entertainment design as well.

Art Director and Show Designer

HE TOOK THE CRUCIAL STEP...

When Aydın came to Istanbul in 1997 he didn’t know he would love it so much. His first work experience, forty days as an architect on a construction site, made him realize that he loved studying architecture, not doing it. So he decided to go to graduate school. In 1997, while doing a Masters degree in Construction Management at Istanbul Technical University, he began tutoring privately. For a year he went all over Istanbul giving private lessons and got to know many different kinds of people.

From 1998 to 2000 he worked in fair organization and information management at the Construction-Industry Center. It was during those years that he learned about organization as a profession. It was then too that he realized not everything is learned in school. In the next few years he signed his name to several works of fair design.

HIS TEACHING YEARS...

In 2001, wanting to be of service to society, he turned the economic troubles of the time into an advantage, becoming an English teacher at a lycee in the underprivileged Istanbul neighborhood of Gaziosmanpaşa, although the National Department of Education assigned none to the region. He tried to teach his students everything that he knew, and his interest in art and literature made him a much-loved teacher and friend to his students. He was forced to abandon his beloved profession in order to perform his military service in 2003.

Murat Ali Aydın has this to say about his teaching years:

“When I look back, it seems to me that those were the best years of my life. There are many students I still see who have achieved a great deal.” “For two years I had a teaching experience of the Dead Poets Society kind.” “All that mattered to me was to teach my teenage students everything I knew and believed in.”

LETTERS FROM STUDENTS

“I have seen many teachers who tried to be like you, teachers who tried to be a big brother, a big sister, a father. But none of them ever explained to me what a transvestite was, and none joked around with me like you did.”

Berkant Akgün

“I am very satisfied with you, my dear Teacher. I wish you had not left. While I was in school I never had another teacher who treated me as well as you did.”

Yavuz Özbay

FIRST EXPERIENCE IN ORGANIZATION...

He began his professional life in organization after completing his military service in 2002. For a year he was responsible, as Assistant to the Director General of the Turkish History Foundation, for running the Topkapi Palace Darphane-i Amire complex. He helped put on the exhibit, “The Development of Civil Society and Human Rights in Turkey,” and hosted many organizations and exhibits.

THE FYM CREATIVE GROUP

A turning point in his career came in 2003 when he met Yavuz Özdel and began to work at the FYM Creative Grup, one of the most important organization companies in Turkey. He served as General Coordinator for 6 years. He worked in both administrative and creative capacities in many national and international organizations, notably the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

A CHILD IS BORN IN IZMIR...

Born in 1973 in Izmir, a city he calls “a place where everyone knows how to live together,” Murat Ali Aydın owes his ability to view life from various different perspectives to the city where he spent his childhood and early youth.

THE FIRST YEARS OF SCHOOL

He started school at 12 Eylül Primary School, in izmir. Throughout his education nobody didn’t have to remind him that should study. He was a tidy and practical student. After gradution from İzmir İnönü High School’s secondary school department, in 1987 he took exam for science high school. Thus journey of Malatya which would open to different experiences was begun.

HIGH SCHOOL, INTRODUCTION TO LIFE...

He describes his years which spent in Aydın, Malatya Science High School “My world view is loving people which got established in those days”. He learnt the tolerance from the days which spent in boardingschool’s close walls with 250 people. He wrote off the concept of “other” in those days.

DREAMS OR REALITIES?...

He’d always wanted to be an architect, but under pressure from those around him chose to study computer engineering. For that reason in 1990 he came to Ankara. But architecture would not leave him alone, and he realized he’d made a mistake, cancelled his enrollment, and took decisions that determined the course of his life. He went after his dreams. He prepared again for the university entrance exams and in 1991 earned a place in the Architecture Faculty at Middle East Technical University. All during his years of study there the conceptual distinctions of approach that he grasped in the projects he did opened new doors to him, and by the time he graduated he had become not an architect but a designer.

UNIVERSITY WAS NOT JUST SCHOOL...

ODTÜ, Aydın’ın organizasyon kariyeri boyunca elde ettiği başarıyı sağlayacak olan mimarlığın yanı sıra onu “tiyatro” ile de tanıştırdı. Önceliği her zaman tiyatrodan yana kullandı. 1991-1997 yılları arasında birçok oyunda oyuncu ve tasarımcı olarak görev aldı. Brecht, Shakespeare, Beckett bu yıllarda onun arkadaşları, kitapları ise yaşam kılavuzu oldu. O dönemde tiyatro eleştirmenlerinden aldığı olumlu yorumlar ve üstesinden geldiği pek çok rol sebebiyle hala “oyuncu” olarak da anılıyor.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

Actor, set designer, costume designer. 1996

June 1996, Agon Tiyatro Dergisi – Inönü Bayramoğlu:

“…Troilus and Cressida is a play that even many professional companies find hard to pull off, but the Middle East Technical University Players’ production, in terms of its dramaturgical analysis, the creative and masterly conception of space in its set design, the intellectual brilliance of its direction and the great performances of its skilled actors (especially Doğanay Çakıroğlu as Thersites, Abdullah Caboluz as Pandarus, Özgür Avcı as Hector and Murat Ali Aydın as Nestor), has added Troilus and Cressida to the list of their successes...”

“…One of the most colorful characterizations is Murat Ali Aydın’s Nestor. With his wheelchair and catheter he puts forth an endearing, successful performance. The casting and characterization is generally successful. Above all, the amateur enthusiasm and energy of the actors carries off this difficult, two-and-a-half-hour play without a hitch...”