Zeynep Üçbaşaran is a Turkish

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Biography

Pianist Zeynep Üçbaşaran was born in

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in 1968. She started her music studies at age four at the Istanbul Conservatory as one of the youngest ever to be admitted. In 1987 Üçbaşaran started her studies in the

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in Budapest, where she worked with Prof. Kornél Zempléni, Prof. Katalin Nemes (pupil of

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), Balázs Kecskés, and Prof. István Lantos. After obtaining her Teacher and Concert Artist Diploma in 1994, she continued her studies with Prof. Dr. Tibor Szász in Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg, Germany (University of Music Freiburg) and obtained her Diploma in Aufbaustudium I. She has her advanced graduate degrees in Piano Performance from the

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: MA (2000), Doctor of Musical Arts (2004). Üçbaşaran has recorded the compositions of

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, and Robert Muczynski for Eroica Classical Recordings. Her samples can be downloaded from her website or listened to from her YouTube Channel: Since 1996 she has been living in

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Performances

Zeynep Üçbaşaran has given solo recitals and concerts in Turkey, Egypt, Hungary, England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Slovenia, Lithuania, and the United States in addition to several chamber music performances. Her

Wigmore Hall The Wigmore Hall is a concert hall at 36 Wigmore Street, in west London. It was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt and opened in 1901 as the Bechstein Hall; it is considered to have particularly good building acoustics, acoustics. It specialis ...

debut in London was in November 2004.

Awards

Her awards include American Liszt Society Award, Rozsnyai Memorial Award, Ina Broida Award from UCSB, and USC Associates Music Merit Scholarship. She is also a recipient of the MAA 2001 Aspen Summer Music Festival Scholarship, where she was selected to play in the distinguished artist Master Class of Leon Fleisher. Üçbaşaran was a prize-winner in the 1996 and 2000 Los Angeles Liszt Competitions. She was designated a "woman of distinction in the year 2003" by the Daughters of Atatürk organization in the US.

Recordings

She has recorded for Eroica Classical Recordings * Santa Barbara LISZT Album, 2001 (Eroica JDT3092) * Virtuoso SCHUBERT, 2002 (Eroica JDT3108) * LISZT / Sonata in B Minor, 2003 (Eroica JDT3135) * Scarlatti / Beethoven / Saygun / Bernstein / Muczynski, 2005 (Eroica JDT3223) * W.A. Mozart, 2005 (Eroica JDT3222)

Piano Sonata No. 14 (Mozart) The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, Köchel catalogue, K. 457, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed and completed in 1784, with the official date of completion recorded as 14 October 1784 in Mozart's own catalogue of works. It was published in ...

* W.A. Mozart, 2007 (Eroica JDT3311) * Ahmet Adnan Saygun, 2008 (Naxos 8.570746)

References

External links

Zeynep Üçbaşaran Website
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