ACADEMICAL

Turkish violinist Çisem Özkurt started to play violin in the age of 11 in Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory with Prof. Engin Eralp and Assistant Professor Ceylan Kabakçı. She studied one year in Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw with Erasmus scholarship and became student of Dr. Andrzej Ladomirski. She graduated from high school and bachelor degrees with the top degree from her department, with the second top degree from the university. She finished her masters from Gordan Nikolic and Goran Gribajcevic’s classes at the Codarts University of the Arts.

She has always been interested to play different styles of music, therefore she did a crossover research for her master thesis between jazz and classical violin.