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Suna Kan was born in Adana in 1936. She started playing the violin at the age of five and gave her first public concerts when she was only nine years old, performing Mozart′s A major and Viotti′s A minor violin concertos. She continued her studies in Ankara under Walter Gerhard, Izzet Albayrak and Lico Amar. In 1949 she was sent to France on a scholarship, under a special law passed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly. She studied with Gabriel Bouillon at the Paris Conservatory and graduated in 1952, after being awarded the first prize.
Later she took part in international competitions and received the following awards: 1954 Geneva Competition (First Medail), 1955 Viotti Competition (First Prize), 1956 Munich Competition (Second Prize), 1957 Marguerite Long / Jacques Thibaud Competition (City of Paris Prize). In 1971 she received the title "State Artist" from the Turkish government. She was awarded "Chevalier dans l′ordre National du Merite" by the Government of France.
Suna Kan′s extensive concert tours have so far covered most parts of the world, including England, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Iran, China, Japan, Ethiopia, Kenya, United Arab Republic, South American countries, Canada and the United States. She has performed with many international orchestras such as the London Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bamberger Symphoniker, Residentie Orchestra (the Netherlands), Moscow Symphony, French National Radio Symphony (ORTF) under great conductors like Istvan Kertesz, Arthur Fiedler, Walter Susskind, Hans Rosbaud, Zubin Mehta, Gotthold Lessing, Louis Fremaux, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Otto Matzerath Gerorge Sebastian and Michel Plasson. She has also collaborated with celebrated artists like Yehudi Menuhin, Igor Bezrodny, Pierre Fournier, Andre Navarra, and Frederick Riddle in performing double concertos.
Kan is one of the founders of TRT Ankara Chamber Orchestra and its virtuoso violinist. Since 1986, in addition to her concerts, broadcasts and recording activities, she is also a professor of violin at the Music and Performing Arts Department of Bilkent University, in Ankara.
(Reference: Wikipedia.org, ayvalik-music.com)
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