Teaching Languages : English, French, Turkish
Teaching Period : July 19 (arrival) - 25 (departure)
Teaching Period : July 19 (arrival) - 25 (departure)
Merve Mersinligil, a pupil of Jean Claude Vanden Eynden, was born in 1984 in Ankara, Turkey. Began studying piano in 1988 with Professor Boguslaw Woudka. She has attended her secondary education in Bilkent University Music Preparatory High School in Ankara, Turkey in the Piano department with a full scholarship and has received her Associate Degree in Composition and Theory from Istanbul University State Conservatory.
At the same
time, she continued her piano and composition studies with composer-pianist Mr
David Ezra Okonsar. She has received her Master of Music degree with her
research “Search of a Neglected Sound” about romantic pianos in Codarts
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and studied with Aquiles
Delle Vigne. She has graduated from Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles with Magna
Cum Laude from Master Specialisée from the class of Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden
and Burkard Spinnler and received her Master Didactique degree from
Conservatoire Royal de Mons with Cum Laude.
She is
prizewinner and laureat in international piano competitions such as “8 o Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Musicale” in Penne, Italy and Lyon
International Piano Competition.
She teaches at
Académie de Musique et Arts de la Scène de Watermael Boitsfort, Center Musical
Eduardo Del Pueyo and Académie Européen de Musique Online. Her students are
also prizewinners in various competitions.
She gives concerts in Belgium, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Poland, Greece, Faroe Islands, and Austria, and has performed with the Sinfonietta Orchestra of Athens under the baton of George Aravidis between others. She is the founder member of Quatuor Amenti. The album of Quatuor Amenti, Death and The Young Man, is available worldwide from Phoenix Records (SONY). Her solo album is available in all platforms from TVClassique Records since March 2021.
She is also the president and the artistic director of CLAME asbl which organizes regular concerts in Belgium to promote classical music and young talents with their maestros.
She gives concerts in Belgium, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Poland, Greece, Faroe Islands, and Austria, and has performed with the Sinfonietta Orchestra of Athens under the baton of George Aravidis between others. She is the founder member of Quatuor Amenti. The album of Quatuor Amenti, Death and The Young Man, is available worldwide from Phoenix Records (SONY). Her solo album is available in all platforms from TVClassique Records since March 2021.
She is also the president and the artistic director of CLAME asbl which organizes regular concerts in Belgium to promote classical music and young talents with their maestros.
