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Özgür Aydın was born in Colorado in 1972. He began his musical studies in the Ankara State Conservatory with Prof. Pekman in 1984-1991. With a scholarship of British Council, he continued his education with Peter Katin at the Royal College of Music in London between 1991 and 1993. He then received the DAAD and Oscar and Vera Ritter Stiftung scholarship and continued to study with Karl-Heinz Kammerling at the Hanover State Academy of Music between 1993 and 1999. He took master courses with Tatiana Nikolaeva, Anatol Ugorski, Dmitri Bashkirov and Leon Fliesher.
Aydın made his major orchestral debut in September, 1997 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the Brahms D minor concerto with Michael Schonwand conducting. This performance immediately opened doors for him throughout the world of music. He has since performed in many prestigious concert venues including Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), Herkulessaal and Gasteig (Munich), Musikhalle (Hamburg), Queen Elisabeth Hall (London), L’Auditori (Barcelona), Suntory Hall and Opera City Recital Hall (Tokyo), Recital Hall (Osaka), 92nd Street Y (New York), Severance Hall (Cleveland) and Kennedy Center (Washington).
Aydın has been invited to perform at important international music festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and International Istanbul Music Festival. He has performed with numerous German Symphony Orchestras, with almost all Turkish Symphony Orchestras and with the BBC Concert Orchestra London.
Awards & Prizes:
1988, Zewinner, National Piano Competition, Istanbul
1993, Prize, Chopin Competition at the Royal College of Music, London
1993, First Prize, Concerto Competition at the Royal College of Music, London
1994, "Förderpreis", International Summer Academy Mozarteum, Salzburg
1995, Mozart Prize, International Bremen Piano Competition
1995, Special Prize, Best Performance of Chopin Etudes, International Chopin Competition, Gottingen
1997, Winner of the International Music Competition of the ARD, Munich with two additional prizes: Wilhelm-Wechsler Music Prize, Osnabruck City; Nippon Music Award, Tokyo
1997, First prize, Maria Callas Garnd Prix, Athens
2000, Prizewinner, Esther Honens Calgary International Piano Competition, Canada
2001, Prizewinner, The Cleveland International Piano Competition, USA and "Mozart Prize" for the best performance of a Mozart composition
2002, Second Prize Winner in MARIA CALLAS GRAND PRIX
His CDs:
• Solo Piano Works by Mozart, Schumann, Liszt (Videal, Berlin, 1998)
• Romantic Selection, solo piano works by Chopin & Rachmaninov (Yapı Kredi, Istanbul, 1999)
• Duo Works for viola and piano by Schubert, Brahms, Hindemith / with Naoko Shimizu, viola (Genuin, Detmold, 2001)
• Solo Piano Works by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Bartok, Boulez (Live Recordings at the Cleveland International Piano Competition 2001)
• Works for viola and piano by Schumann, Britten and Bunch (Genuin, Detmold, 2004)
Reference: ozguraydin.com; kahramankaptan.com
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