- Date: Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 3:00 PM
- Location: Detroit Institute of Arts at 5200 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan 48202
- Price: No cost
Dear TACAM Members and Friends of Turkiye:
You are cordially invited to attend to see Pianist Idil Ulgen who will perform a piano recital of Western and Turkish marches and dances, including compositions by W.A. Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and piano transcriptions of Turkish band music.
TACAM is proud to be a sponsor for this event and some details are in the below links:
This program is made free with museum admission, but requires RSVP due to limited seating! We encourage you to make reservations now.
We celebrate the dedication and success of our friend Idil Ulgen (see Bio below) and encourage our community to attend her upcoming exhibition!
Best regards
Asli Yashin & Ahmet Karaca
PS – BIO of Ildil Ulgen:
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Idil Ulgen started her music education at the Istanbul University State Conservatory and later attended the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, Austria. Before moving to United States, she was on the staff of the Piano and Theory Departments of the Istanbul University State Conservatory. In USA, she studied piano with Joseph Gurt at Eastern Michigan University, and won the first prize at the Graduate Music Award Competition and Concerto Competition at EMU.
She received a Master’s degrees in Piano Performance from Eastern Michigan University and Piano Pedagogy and Performance from the University of Michigan. She studied piano with Prof. Louis Nagel and piano pedagogy with Joanne Smith at the University of Michigan. Until recently, she served as a member of the piano faculty at the Eastern Michigan University.
Mrs. Ulgen regularly plays in solo and chamber music recitals and orchestra concerts in the USA, Austria, Canada and Turkey. She played the world premiere of “Fantasy Tango,” composed by Prof. Joseph Gurt and dedicated to Mrs. Ulgen, with the Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra of Michigan and Istanbul Isik University Orchestra of Istanbul, Turkey. Her latest choreographed piano recital that included ballet, dances by whirling dervishes, and poetry reading was televised in Turkey and several European countries.