ICA New Music Weekend 2024 – “Performance Psychology in Clarinet” with Billur Sedef Sogulcakli

Izmir Art and Dokuz Eylul University State Conservatory Performing Arts Department

In the Ballet Main Art branch, she started her music education with ballet in preschool and primary school and continued with clarinet as a part-time student with Izmir State Symphony Orchestra Clarinet Artist and Conservatory Instructor Ender GÜLENLER, and completed her 4-year education at Dokuz Eylul University State Conservatory Music and Performing Arts High School full-time in the 2010-2011 academic year, and then completed her undergraduate education, which started in the 2014-2015 academic year, in the 2017-2018 academic year. During her education, she studied masterclasses with French clarinet artist and orchestra conductor Prof. Guy Dangain, and later worked on clarinet techniques with French Prof. Alain Boeglin. Later, she participated in workshops and masterclasses of Elif Aksoy, Wenzel Fuchs, Christian Dabovue and Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra Clarinetist Ayşegül Kirmanoğlu. In 2013, she worked with Dutch clarinetist Pierre Woudenberg, and in 2014 with German clarinetist Thomas Lindhorst. In addition; In 2017 and 2018, she gave successful concerts by working with Conductor Martin Lentz and his team at the Germany/Bremen International Youth Orchestra, and she was invited to take part in this orchestra again in 2019. In the 2018-2019 academic year, she started her MA in Clarinet Art Department at Dokuz Eylül University Institute of Fine Arts with Dr. Lecturer Şehrinaz GÜNDÜZ, Assistant Director of İskenderun Technical University Mustafa Yazıcı State Conservatory and Clarinet Art Department Faculty Member, and graduated with a Certificate of Honor and 4 full points in June 2021.