Özcan Ulucan

Özcan Ulucan's engagement as soloist with the Festival Chamber Orchestra in 1996 took him to Los Angeles, La Cañada and San Marino in California. A Turkish violinist and violist born in Bulgaria, he studied in Bulgaria, Turkey, Britain and Germany with Zdravka and Vesselin Spirov, G. Burova, Yfrah Neaman, Viktor Pikaizen, Joshua Epstein and Maxim Vengerov, and has often played with his sisters, the pianist Birsen Ulucan and the violinist Aysen Ulucan. He has recorded two discs for Lila Music Istanbul and appeared with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, in the Royal Albert Hall, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Concertgebouw, the last with Vengerov and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta under Mstislav Rostropovich. He is a founding member of the Hezarfen new music ensemble in Istanbul and teaches as assistant professor at the State Music Academy of Mimar Sinan University.