Terra Trio perform Helix in Ankara, Turkey

About the Event

Terra Trio invites you to this experience with this journey that integrates art with nature at Mozarthaus on Friday, November 22nd...

Born with the passion of three female artists who came together to combine the elegant melodies of nature with art, Terra Trio's magical harmony of violin, cello and piano draws inspiration from the depths of the earth and nature.

Terra' represents both the world and the soil, and with this name, the trio aims to reflect the energy and life force that the earth offers to everyone in music and to take listeners on an emotional journey with melodies blended with the rhythm of nature, helping them rediscover their connection with the earth.

TERRA TRIO

BEGUM BENSU UNSAL, Violin

EZGİ YAĞMUR BİLGİN, Cello

DİLAN DERELİ, Piano

PROGRAM

FAZIL SAY | Cleopatra, for Solo Violin, Op. 34 (5.58'),

FAZIL SAY | Space Jump, Trio for Violin, Piano and Cello Op. 46 (11'),

JOHN PSATHAS | Gyftiko for Solo Violin (6.30')

JOHN PSATHAS | Helix, Trio for Piano, Cello and Violin. (15')

-The Biggest Nothing of Them Al

-Tarantism

ÖZKAN MANAV | What the Earth Whispers, for Violin, Piano and Cello, Op. 37 (12')

* Program duration is 50 minutes without intermission.

BEGÜM BENSU ÜNSAL, Violin
Born on July 3, 1994 in Ankara. Started violin lessons at the age of 9. Ezgi Yağmur Bilgin, who was accepted to the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Cello Department as a student of İzzet Nazlıaka in 2005, has given many concerts as a member of the orchestra and as a soloist. Vasily Petrenko, Charles Debout, Ginandrea Noseda, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Claudio Vandelli, Lahav Shani, Gürer Aykal, Orhun Orhon, Rengim Gökmen, Burak Tüzün are among the conductors she has worked with. She has performed with the Hacettepe University Symphony Orchestra, Limak Philharmonic Orchestra, and Ankara Youth Symphony Orchestra. Participated in the masterclasses of Frans Helmerson, Amedeo Cicchese, Carol Ou, Christoph Henkel, Emilio Colon, Dilbağ Tokay, Çağ Erçağ, Elinor Frey, and Ozan Tunca.

In 2016, she graduated from Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory with high honors and in the same year, she was accepted to Anadolu University's master's program and continued her studies with Ozan Evrim Tunca, graduating with the same status in 2019. Ezgi Yağmur Bilgin, who won the exam opened by the Tsinandali Festival held in Georgia in August 2019 and became a member of the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra, was invited to the following years after the festival. The cellist, who worked with Sinan Dizmen in her second master's degree, continues her doctorate education with Ozan Evrim Tunca at Anadolu University.

EZGİ YAĞMUR BİLGİN
started her cello violin education in 2003 at Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory with Prof. Cengiz Özkök. In 2013, she won the Erasmus Exchange Program and continued her education for one year at the Academy of Performing Arts Prague. She studied violin with Pavel Hula and chamber music with Prof. Jiri Tomasek. She returned to Turkey in 2014 and graduated with high honors from Prof. Murat Tamer's class.

During his education, he had the opportunity to work with artists such as Prof. Ariadne Daskalakis, Berent Korfker, John Gilbert, Prof. Kees Koelmans and Jülide Yalçın Dittgen.

He gave chamber music and solo concerts in important concert halls such as Cadogan Hall in Amsterdam, Vienna and London. He also gave a concert with the chamber music group he founded at the Debussy Festival in 2017. He gave a very successful concert at the world-famous Bozar stage in Belgium with the Thallein Ensemle, of which he was the first violin member.

He completed his master's degree at the Royal Birmingham Conservatory with a scholarship between 2016-2018 and was also
supported by the Doğuş Group Ayhan Şahenk Foundation Scholarship.

Bensu, who served as a violinist at the Bursa Regional State Symphony Orchestra between 2019-2022, is currently continuing her doctoral studies with Prof. Mario Hossen at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia.

DİLAN DERELİ, Piano
Ankara-based pianist Dilan Dereli, while studying at TED Ankara College in 2004, started her academic piano career with Prof. Yeşim Alkaya Yener by passing the talent exams of Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory. She graduated from high school as top student and from undergraduate school as third student. In 2008, she studied with Prof. Aquiles Delle-Vigne at the Salzburg Universität Mozarteum Summer Academy, and in 2010, she studied with Prof. Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden in Nancy.

In 2011, he worked with Ilya Itin, Peter Katin, Gülsin Onay, Misha Dacic, Julian Gorus and İbrahim Yazıcı at the Gümüşlük Festival Academy for one month as part of the International Gümüşlük Classical Music Festival. He attended masterclasses by Oxana Yablonskaya, Mehmet Okonşar and İdil Biret. He took music history and improvisation lessons from İlhan Baran throughout his middle and high school education.

In 2012, she took part in the Doğuş Children's Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Rengim Gökmen and gave concerts in Ankara and Eskişehir.

Between 2013 and 2014, she studied piano with Klaus Sticken, chamber music with Johannes Kropfitsch, and piano accompaniment with David Arronson at the University of Musik und Kunst in Vienna for one year. After her undergraduate education, she gave vocal accompaniment and assistant piano lessons at the Ankara University State Conservatory between 2015 and 2018, and worked as a stage pianist. In September 2019, she completed her master's degree with Prof. Yeşim Alkaya Yener and graduated with high honors.

In November 2021, she performed three pieces written by Muammer Sun for voice and piano together with soprano Burcu Hancı as part of the Muammer Sun Memorial Concert organized by Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory. In March 2022, she recorded these three pieces written by Muammer Sun for voice and piano together with soprano Burcu Hancı and bass-baritone Burak Bilgili at the Istanbul Arter Art Gallery.

Since 2021, she has given concerts in many cities such as Ankara, Istanbul, Bodrum, Bayburt, and Izmir together with Soprano Burcu Hancı. In 2023, she was a guest on the program "Başrolde Kadınlar" prepared by Zeliha Tekin Şahin on TRT 3 Radio Channel and presented by Sinem Yıldırım Yalçın. In 2024, she founded the Muse Art Collective brand, which organizes chamber concerts with Architect Övgün Ateşoğlu in Adana, in order to bring a new breath to her art life. In addition to her piano career, Dilan Dereli, who has been teaching as a piano instructor at Bilkent University Early Music Education since 2017, is also a Prodigies Music instructor. She has also been a certified NLP instructor since 2017 and graduated from Anadolu University, Media and Communication Department.

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