Cihat Aşkın

Cihat Aşkın graduated from the Turkish State Conservatory at Istanbul Technical University in 1989. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at City University in 1992-96. He became an Associate Professor in Istanbul Technical University in 1998. He has been a violin teacher at the Keshet Eilon Violin Master-Classes in Israel since 1999. He is the music director of the Istanbul Chamber Orchestra and a founder of the Istanbul Modern Music Ensemble (IMME). Aşkın is a regular soloist in the Kaprizma Ensemble in Israel. Awards: The Istanbul Philharmonic Society Award, The Best Bartók interpreter at the 1987 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, Outstanding Merit Prize at the 1990 London Carl Flesch International Violin Competition and Foyer des Artistes (Italy, 2002). Albums: Hungaroton, Kalan Müzik, Discovery, Meridian, CPO and UPR Classics, releases including Mozart′s Fifth Violin Concerto with the Hungarian Virtuosi under Hikmet Şimşek, the Bach Double with Suna Kan, "Octachord" with Tania Lisboa, Akses Concerto with Rengim Gökmen and the NDR Hanover Philharmonic. Invitation to the Seraglio /Emre Aracı, Warner Classics.