Music career
Sefika Kutluer has studied at Ankara State Conservatory for 10 years, advancing 4 grades, and graduated with honors and awards in 1979. She achieved her soloist career in Vienna and Rome. She taught at the Ankara Conservatory for several years. Receiving many international awards, she won the 1st prize in “International Flute Contest“ in Vienna. After winning several international competitions and launching her truly international career as a soloist, she was awarded the presidential Medal in Turkey, in 1985, the highest honor that country bestows on an individual, and in 1998 she became a "State Artist". She is known as the “Magic Flute” after the headline written by the New York Times’ critics. Şefika Kutluer is the Flute Soloist at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. She received the “Golden Bravo Award”, as the “Best Classical Performer, in Russia at the Bolshoi Theatre. And she performed with the Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra on April the 25th, 2023. She has performed several concerts, in innumerable countries in 5 continents, at many famous concert halls like; Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center in the USA, Bolshoi Theater, Tchaikovsky Hall, St. Petersburg Phil. Hall in Russia, Suntory Hall in Japan, Rudolfinum in Prague, joined International Music Festivals and received very favorable reviews. She participated in radio-television programs and held "Master Classes". Also; Şefika Kutluer prepares and presents a program called "Music of Emotions" on TRT Radio 3 Classical Music channel, weekly. In 2018 being invited by the government of Israel to represent Turkey, she joined the Mashav’s 30th International Women Leaders Conference of “Leading Women Making a Difference” in Israel. Gave a concert and delivered a speech together with women leaders (vice presidents, ministers, parliament and supreme council members) joining the conference from 45 different countries all over the world. She has performed concerts at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations Organization, at the Palace of Spain in the presence of the King and the Queen and in Tokyo of Prince Mikasa. Joined The 4th World Conference on Women, representing Turkey, in 1995 in Beijing, China and gave a concert. Kutluer represented Turkey at the Asian Symphony Orchestra formed by artists from 40 different Asian Countries and performed the opening concert of The Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, in Beijing China in 2019, in front of President Xi Jinping and to an audience of 80 000. Then she continued her concert tour in China. Ian Anderson composed a piece titled “Sefika’s Tango”, especially for her, and she made a concert tour with Jethro Tull playing this piece, as well. Arif Melikov, Turgay Erdener, Jose Elizondo, Rene Giessen and Çetin Işıközlü have composed special music for her. She made concerts with Claude Bolling dedicated to Jean Pierre Rampal. She has started an international festival in Ankara, which continues every year during the same period. “The first 15 International Şefika Kutluer Festivals - East Meets West” (www.sefikakutluerfest.com ) were organized each year from 2010 to 2024. The International Şefika Kutluer Festival was chosen as the 1st in the "Best Festival" category at the Ace of MICE Awards 2020, which is accepted as the Oscars of the ”meetings and events industry”. Sefika Kutluer has released 17 albums including recordings with the Berlin Philharmony and the British Royal Philharmonic orchestras. Her CD’s are distributed all around the world and her discography receives the reviewer’s and music-lovers’ great appraisal. Sony has awarded her Carmen Fantasy CD, with a "GOLDEN CD PRIZE". Her "Bach Sonatas" CD has been chosen as one of the best CDs of the year by the reviewers of the American Record Guide. She also received “GALLO GOLDEN CD COLLECTION” award from Gallo International, based in Switzerland, and her 17 CDs are published with this label. Recently she has released a solo CD that includes her composition she has written for her beloved mother. She is a Gallo International Management Artist. Currently, Kutluer is the flute soloist of theAlbümleri
Awards
She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Turkey in 1985. On 22 August 1991, she was officially appointed asReferences
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kutluer, Sefika Living people 1961 births Musicians from Ankara Turkish women Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory alumni Turkish classical flautists Women flautists State Artists of Turkey