Bassist, composer, educator on mainstream jazz, fusion and cross-over disciplines. Kamil Erdem made his career mainly through his works and performances inspired by the scales and rhythms of the music of the Balkans, Anatolia and the Middle East. However, mainstream jazz has also been one of his primary interests, both as a player and teacher.

Erdem founded the group Asiaminor in 1990, which has given him access to the international music scene for more than 10 years. Asiaminor toured several times in Europe (1990-2002) and the USA (1996,1998,2003) and released three albums, Along the Street (1991), Longa Nova (1996), and Cat's Dream (1997).

In 2001 Kamil Erdem released his solo bass album, A Tale of Bass, where his own impressions of different traditional musics have been transformed into virtuosic techniques and compositions for solo bass guitar. Since 2002, he has been conducting workshops and master-classes on solo bass guitar performance techniques and playing solo bass recitals in Turkey and abroad.

Kamil's versatility as a musician brought him to many international projects to collaborate with musicians from allover the world, coming from different musical genres. The "Kamil Erdem Quartet" was a result of such a collaboration of Turkish and European musicians. The quartet toured Holland in 2008 after which the album "Odd Tango" was recorded and released later in the same year.

Kamil Erdem has an international career as a teacher and has conducted master classes, workshops and seminars in Poland, the Netherlands, Austria, South Africa and the US in prestigious institutions. He is a faculty member at Yıldız Technical University in İstanbul, Department of Music and Performing Arts.