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    S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Benaroya Hall - Seattle, USA

  • Öykü Canpolat

    Öykü Canpolat
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    Bio

    Year of birth:
    1993

    Place of birth:
    Izmir, Turkey

    Studies:

    • Viola BA – Izmir, TurkeyDokuz Eylül University – Çetin Aydar/ Pınar Dinçer – (2010-2013)
    • Viola BA – Berlin – Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ – Pauline Sachse/ Friedemann Weigle – (2013-2015)
    • Viola MA – Berlin – Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ – Tabea Zimmermann – (2015-2019)

    Current job:

    • Professor for viola at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart
    • I. Principal Viola: Gürzenich Orchester Köln (since 2020)
    • Member of Bayreuther Festspielorchester (since 2022)

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    Biography

    Öykü Canpolat was born in 1993 in Izmir, Turkey.  At the age of nine, she started studying viola as a ‘young student’ in the class of Dr. Cetin Aydar, the viola professor at the State Conservatory „Dokuz Eylül University“.  She was the youngest ‘young student’ in the Conservatory. She continued her Bachelor studies also as a student of Prof. Çetin Aydar. She was promoted twice during her education due to her outstanding success, therefore she graduated two years earlier than the usual.

    In 2013 she came to Berlin and started her Bachelor studies for the second time from the fifth semester at the Hochschule für Musik ´Hanns Eisler` in Berlin.  Her teachers were Prof. Pauline Sachse und Prof. Friedemann Weigle.

    From 2014 to 2106 Ms. Canpolat was a member of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Berlin) while also playing with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra as a substitute.

    In April 2015, she won First Prize as well as a special audience prize at the seventh International Szymon-Goldberg Competition.

    In 2015, she began her Master Studies at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin under the tutelage of Prof. Tabea Zimmermann.  She graduated with Highest Honors in 2019.

    From 2016 to 2020, she was a tenured member as Coordinate Solo Viola at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

    In February 2020, she became Principal Viola in the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne , which is conducted by François-Xavier Roth.

     

    Studierende

    Jelena Antić

    Maj Bommas

    Bella Chich

    Ukyo Fujiwara

    Franziska Hügel

    Brian Isaacs

    Arcan Isenkul

    Sophie Kiening

    Gordon Lau

    Sào Soulez Larivière

    Haesue Lee

    Natalie Loughran

    Eric Seohyun Moon

    Nicholas Swensen

    Ayaka Taniguchi

    Caspar Vinzens

    Luisa Ye

    Alumni

    Micha Afkham

    Guy Ben-Ziony

    Agathe Blondel

    Barbara Buntrock

    Öykü Canpolat

    Marie Chilemme

    Hélène Clément

    Toby Cook

    Lotus de Vries

    Valentin Eichler

    Miguel Erlich

    Karolina Errera Pavon

    Stefanie Farrands

    Sara Ferrandez Castro

    Alexander Gordon

    Olga Hansen

    Stine Hasbirk

    Gabriele Heinecke

    Miriam Helms Alien

    Kyuri Kim

    Sejune Kim

    Georgy Kovalev

    Anna Krimm

    Hande Küden

    Josip Kvetek

    Adrien la Marca

    S. Seungwon Lee

    Marion Leleu

    Anna Lewis

    Matthew Lipman

    Mark Liu

    Lev Loiko

    Ana Mba-Flores

    Ada Myriel Meinich

    Giovanni Menna

    Johannes Moehrle

    Sindy Mohamed

    Nilay Özdemir

    Kyoungmin Park

    Yael Patish

    Tahlia Petrosian

    Anna Puig Torne

    Madeleine Przybyl

    Muriel Razavi

    Alejandro Regueira

    Pauline Sachse

    Teresa Schwamm

    Jungahn Shin

    Clara-Hélène Stangorra

    Arnold Stieve

    Maya Tal

    Antoine Tamestit

    German Tcakulov

    Kei Tojo

    Ulla Tremuth

    Albin Uusijärvi

    Simone von Rahden

    Emma Wernig

    Judith Wijzenbeek

    Zhechao Xie

    Peijun Xu

    Armando Yagüe

    Ula U. Zebriunaite

    Sarina Zickgraf

    Ylvali Zilliacus

    Silas Zschocke