About
The Turkish pianist Zeynep Özsuca, born in 1984 in Ankara, received her first piano lessons at the age of four. She began her regular studies at the Music Conservatory of Hacettepe University in her hometown. After winning the Istanbul Symphony's Young Soloists Competition in 2001, she moved to the US, continued her education with Peter Takács at the Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio, and finally completed her studies with Alexander Vitlin at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin specialized in the subjects of chamber music and coaching and received the Master's Degree in 2013.
Today Zeynep Özsuca lives in London and is internationally active as a soloist, chamber musician and Lied accompanist. She collaborated with conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Halsey and Sir Simon Rattle, who described her as one of the "great ensemble pianists of our time". She studied singers such as Magdalena Kožená, Rolando Villazón, Gerald Finley, Annette Dasch and Michael Schade for her appearances and was also engaged as a referee at the Berlin State Opera, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and the Glyndebourne Festival. Last but not least, Zeynep Özsuca is a sought-after chamber musician. Together with the clarinetist Sacha Rattle, her husband, she forms since 2005 a duo at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Würzburg Mozart Festival, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Fundación Juan March in Madrid was listening. In addition, she is a member of the Ensemble Berlin Counterpoint, with whom she u. a. in Valencia, Bilbao, Istanbul or at the Bonn Beethovenfest and presented a CD with works by Beethoven, Poulenc and Strauss.