Zeynep Toraman is a composer and scholar from Istanbul living and working in Berlin. Her practice-based research explores the ways in which texts (in the broadest sense of this word) can interact with one another within the larger framework of musical compositions, by way of thinking of her own library as an archive, and enfolding autobiography, poetry, fiction and history within her works. Past and recent collaborators include Contrechamps, Elision Ensemble, Ensemble Linea, Quatuor Diotima, Ensemble Proton, Noam Bierstone and Wet Ink Ensemble. Her music has been performed at festivals such as Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Summer Academy Schloss Solitude and IRCAM ManiFeste. Zeynep taught at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and completed her PhD in music composition at Harvard in 2023, where she studied with Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku and John Hamilton.