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Pianist Zeynep Ucbasaran was born in Istanbul, Turkey. At age four, she entered the Istanbul Conservatory and studied with Rana Erksan and Ozen Veziroglu. In 1987 Ucbasaran enrolled in the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where she studied under Prof. Zempleni Kornel, Prof. Katalin Nemes (pupil of Bela Bartok), Balazs Kecskes, and Prof. Istvan Lantos. After obtaining her Teacher and Concert Artist Diploma, in 1994 she entered Hochschule fur Musik, Freiburg, Germany and continued her studies with Prof. Dr. Tibor Szasz, and obtained her Diploma in Aufbaustudium I. She has a MM degree in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2000), where she studied with John Perry. Zeynep has given recitals and concerts in Turkey, Hungary, Germany, Slovenia, and the United States in addition to several chamber music performances. In 1996 Ucbasaran won the Second Prize at the Los Angeles Liszt Competition. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the same competition in 2000. Her awards include American Liszt Society Award, the Rozsnyai Memorial Award, Ina Broida Award from the University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Southern California Associates Music Merit Scholarship, and MAA 2001 Aspen Summer Music Festival Scholarship. Since 1996 she has been living in Santa Barbara, California. In February 2002, she completed recording a collection of virtuoso solo piano works of Franz Liszt in Abravanel Hall, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. This CD titled Santa Barbara Liszt Album is being released by Eroica Classical Recordings (Eroica JDT3092). |
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