Kaan Bıyıkoğlu, Turkey
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Kaan Bıyıkoğlu got
interested with jazz while studying at the Ankara Science High School,
and during his bachelor's and master's studies at Middle East Technical
University he studied piano with Prof. Semra Kartal besides sharing the
stages with emminent Turkish jazz musicians such as Tuna Ötenel, Okay
Temiz, Yıldız İbrahimova, Yahya Dai, Sibel Köse and Kürşat And. He
finished his master's studies at the METU Informatics Insitute with his
thesis entitled “A Markov Model For Chorale Harmonization in the Style
of J.S. Bach”. Later on he commenced on master's studies on classical
piano performance at Başkent University Ankara State Conservatory where
he studied piano with Mehmet Okonşar and harmony with Sami Hatipoğlu.
Kaan moved to the Netherlands in 2006 to further his jazz education, and
he studied jazz piano and harmony with Kris Goessens and Rob van Bavel,
and composition and orchestration with Ilja Reijngoud at the Rotterdam
Conservatory. He attended to the master classes and workshops given by
Barry Harris, Charlie Haden, Peter
Erskine, Billy Hart, Jason Moran, Miguel Zenon, Antonio Farao, Baptiste
Trotignon, Luis Perdomo, Dado Morani, Frans Elsen, Misha Alperin, and
Jarmo Savolainen. He participated in numerous festivals, concerts, radio
and television broadcasts, and album recordings in the Netherlands,
Belgium and Germany. Kaan Bıyıkoğlu returned back to Turkey in 2013 and
currently he is teaching piano and harmony at the Jazz Department of
Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory.
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