Born in Istanbul in 1975; violinist and viola player. He trained at the State Conservatory of the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, from 1994 with Lukas David at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and from 1999 with Mintcho Mintchev at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, where he took his Konzertexamen with distinction in 2002; he received further stimulus from Barbara Gorzynska and Matthias Maurer. His awards include the GWK-Förderpreis Musik (1998), first prize at the Istanbul Violin Competition (2000), the Folkwang-Preis (2002), laureate at the 8th International Vaclav Huml Competition in Zagreb (2005), two special prizes at the Internationaler Johannes-Brahms-Wettbewerb (2007) and in 2008 its prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work, as well as the Donizetti-Preis as best Turkish string player (2011). As a soloist he has appeared with the Camerata Salzburg, the Zagreb Philharmonic and the Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin, among others. Since April 2017 he has been principal viola of the MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, and since 2023 a member of the Trio Lirico. In 2019 Cybele released the double SACD J. S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas BWV 1001-1006, arr. for Viola, played on a viola by Pellegrino de Micheli (1560).
Atilla Aldemir
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