Visiting PianistMarch 7, 2003 at 7:30–9 p.m.

Pianist Zeynep Ucbasaran started her music studies at age four at the Istanbul Conservatory. She has her Concert Artist Diploma from the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. She obtained her graduate and advanced graduate degrees in Piano Performance from Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg, Germany and from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Among other professional awards, Ucbasaran was a prizewinner in the 1996 and 2000 Los Angeles Liszt Competitions. She has given many recitals and concerts in Turkey, Egypt, Hungary, Germany, Slovenia, and in the United States. Her recordings of the music of Franz Liszt (Santa Barbara Liszt Album, JDT3092), and Franz Schubert (Virtuoso Schubert, JDT3108) for Eroica Classical Recordings, won high critical praise both in the US and abroad.