Melis Ertürk, Turkey
She was born in Ankara (1993). She
was accepted to Mersin University State Conservatory as a student of
Aylin Ulutaş to the piano department in 1999. Completing her first grade
education in Mersin, in 2004, she was admitted to study at the Hacettepe
University Ankara State Conservatory as a student of Prof Yesim Alkaya
Yener. She attended International Pera
Piano Festival, which is organized in 2007 and 2009. She graduated from
high school as a first degree. She appeared in lots of concerts,
including chamber concerts (Turkish – American & International Women’s
Cultural & Charitable Society, 2011; Vehbi Koç Foundation, 2011;
Cumhuriyet Culture Center, 2012). She participated in master – classes
with Rostislav Youvchev (2010), Pawel Kaminski (2011), Ben Roels and
Roberto d’Olbia (2014). Between 2013 – 2014 she was in Leipzig as part
of the Erasmus Program. There studied piano with Prof. Markus Tomas and
chamber music with Prof. Peter Bruns and Prof. Peter Hörr. She
took also organ lessons from Moritz Schott. She made a first record
of Cebeci Monologları, that’d written by Turgay Erdener. In 2014 she
performed Onur Özmen’s Bir Garip Lacivert (Piyano için İki Küçük
Öykü) for the first time. She is still continuing to work with Prof. Yeşim
Alkaya Yener in Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory as a
senior student.
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