"As a Mozart player, Ucbasaran touches the sublime.." All Music Guide
"Ucbasaran’s strong suit is her clean articulation girded by a powerful sonority.." Audiophile Audition
"An excellent recommendation for three of Mozart’s rarer sonatas played with real conviction.." MusicWeb
"The Turkish pianist gives us objective performances of clarity, sharp detail, rhythmic vitality, and integrity.." American Record Guide
August 2008 - With four new CDs, Zeynep Ucbasaran brings her complete cycle of Mozart sonatas to a close:
Early Sonatas (2-CDs, Eroica JDT3403) Late Sonatas (2-CDs, Eroica JDT3404)
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Pianist Zeynep
Ucbasaran started her music studies at age four at the Istanbul Conservatory. She has a Concert Artist
Diploma from the Liszt Academy of Music
, Budapest,
where
she studied under Prof. Zempleni Kornel, Prof. Katalin Nemes (pupil of
Bela Bartok), Balazs Kecskes, and Prof. Istvan Lantos. She also has a
Diploma in Aufbaustudium from the Hochschule
für Musik , in
Freiburg, Germany. She has obtained her MA and DMA degrees in Piano
Performance
from the University of Southern California. 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. Ucbasaran 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 Ataturk
organization in the US.
She
has given many recitals and concerts in Turkey, Hungary, Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, England,
Egypt, Estonia, Slovenia, Lithuenia, Belarus, and in the United States.
Her Wigmore Hall debut in
London was in November 2004.
She has recorded Santa
Barbara LISZT Album
(Eroica JDT3092) , Virtuoso
SCHUBERT (Eroica
JDT3108) , LISZT / Sonata in B
minor (Eroica
JDT3135) , W. A. Mozart (Eroica
JDT3222), Scarlatti
/ Beethoven /
Saygun / Bernstein / Muczynski
(Eroica JDT3223), W.
A. Mozart (Eroica
JDT3311) for Eroica
Classical Recordings. In February 2007,
she has recorded the
piano music of the Turkish composer A. Adnan Saygun for Naxos
International Naxos 8.570746
(April 2008). Her latest releases are two double disks of Mozart
sonatas, W. A. Mozart:
Early Sonatas (Eroica
JDT3403) (August 2008) and W. A. Mozart: Late
Sonatas (Eroica
JDT3404) (August 2008), concluding her recording of the complete piano
sonatas of Mozart for Eroica, as well as selected music for two pianos, recorded with pianist Sergio Gallo: Music for Two Pianos (Eroica
JDT3421) . |
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