Guest Pianist UcbasaranMarch 21, 2004 at 7:30–9 p.m.

Pianist Zeynep Ucbasaran started her music studies at age four at the Istanbul Conservatory. She has a Concert Artist Diploma from the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, and a Diploma in Aufbaustudium from the Hochschule fur Musik, in Freiburg, Germany. Her advanced graduate degrees in Piano Performance are from the University of Southern California with John Perry. Her awards include American Liszt Society Award, Rozsnyai Memorial Award, Ina Broida Award from UCSB, and USC Associates Music Merit Scholarship. She is also a recipient of the MAA 2001 Aspen Summer Music Festival Scholarship, where she was selected to play in the distinguished artist Master Class of Leon Fleisher. Ucbasaran was a prize-winner in the 1996 and 2000 Los Angeles Liszt Competitions. She has given many recitals and concerts in Turkey, Hungary, Germany, Egypt, Slovenia, and in the United States.