Ayla Erduran

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Ayla Erduran

Ayla Erduran (born September 22, 1934 in Istanbul , Turkey ) is a Turkish violinist .

biography

Erduran was born in Istanbul and grew up there. She received her first violin lessons from her mother. She then studied violin with Karl Berger from the age of four and began performing at the age of ten. She played her first concert with Ferdi Ştatzer in a cinema in Saray. In 1946, at the age of 12, she studied at the Paris Conservatory . In 1951 she moved to the United States of America for four years, where her teachers were Ivan Galamyan and Zino Francescatti . In 1957 and 1958 she played at the Moscow Conservatory under David Oistrakh and began to give concerts internationally. Until 1963 Erduran visited various countries in Europe as well as South Korea, India, Canada, the USA and Azerbaijan. In total, this tour included 160 performances.

In 1958 Erduran played the premiere of a violin concerto by Ulvi Cemal Erkin in Belgium . In 1963 she toured the Middle East with Cumhurbaşkanlığı Senfoni Orkestrası ( President's Symphony Orchestra ). She performed for the Harriet Cohen Award with Mithat Fenmen , her concert given at the Royal Albert Hall in 1965 was broadcast live by the BBC .

With the Orchester de la Suisse Romande , she also played Jean Sibelius 's violin concerto in Geneva in 1965 for the anniversary of Jean Sibelius .

In 1973 Erduran took on a teaching position at the Conservatoire de Lausanne in Switzerland, which she held until 1990.

After 1990 Erduran released individual CDs and continued to give concerts. In February 2019 Ayla Erduran took part in a panel discussion by the Istanbul research Institute on the development of classical music in Turkey.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ayla Erduran  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Evin İlyasoğlu : Ayla'yı Dinler misiniz? , Remzi Publishing House 2002. (Biography: Do You Listen to Ayla )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b iae.org.tr/Sounds-of-Istanbul-Ayla-Erduran , Istanbur Research Institute - website. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b turkishculture.org/ayla-erduran , Turkish Culture Foundation - website. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Erduran, Ayla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish violinist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Turkey