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Zeynep Gedizlioğlu

Zeynep Gedizlioglu
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Zeynep Gedizlioğlu was born in Izmir, Turkey. She studied composition with Cengiz Tanc in Istanbul, Theo Brandmüller in Saarbrücken, Ivan Fedele in Strasbourg and Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe, as well as music theory with Michael Reudenbach. In 2012 she received the Ernst von Siemens Composition Prize, in 2014 she was Composer of the Year at the Donizetti Prize in Istanbul, in 2018 she received the Heidelberg Female Artist Prize, in 2019 the Composition Prize of the Academy of Arts Berlin and in 2022 the Music Authors Prize in the category of chamber music. Zeynep Gedizlioglu has worked with renowned ensembles and orchestras, and her music has been performed internationally at various promoters and festivals. She has given master classes in composition in Ankara, , Karlsruhe, Hannover and Weikersheim. She lives as a freelance composer in Berlin.

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