Emre Nurbeyler was born in Izmir, Turkey in September 6th 2000. He started piano lessons at the age of 6 and quickly moved further into being a part-time musician (at the age of 9) and a full-time musician 2 years later as a junior student at the Izmir State Conservatory, where he passed both entrance exams with first place. After 10 fruitful years of lessons with his piano teacher Prof. Aslı Tuncay, he graduated from high school, passed the exams at the Trossingen State University of Music and was accepted into the piano class of Prof. Tomislav Baynov. In 2023 he successfully completed his final exams with full marks (1.0) in both the Podium and Pedagogy profiles. Since then he continues his studies in the same university as master electroacoustic/algorithmic composition student under the three professors Luc Döbereiner, Joachim Goßmann and Sven Daigger while continuing his career as a pianist/composer.
Since the age of 7, he has given countless solo and chamber music concerts in Turkey, Germany, Austria, France and USA; where in all of them a big part was reserved to his compositions. His most recent award is the 1st Prize at the II. Förderverein Innovative Concert Formats Competition with his composition Inner Decision, a concert project focusing on the global decision making organs and their effect to climate change, conceived together with Dominik Rösler and Sofia Torgal (2024). His success on this project lead to the Kenan Yavuz Etnography Museum of Bayburt to order a similar project focusing on museums and their effect on collective memory, which was later titled “Memory” for Violin, Piano and Electronics (2024).
Earlier he won the DAAD Prize (2022) and 1st Prize at the International Piano Competition of the Tryavna Arts Festival in Bulgaria (2020). With his trio ‘EmShiDe’ he won 1st prize at the 12th Marktoberdorf Piano Competition for 6 & 8 hands (2023) along with his composition for 6 hands. At the Disklavier Composition Competition (2021), organized by Yamaha Italy, he was the youngest of six composers to reach the final with his composition “NeoCapriccio in ‘Aksak’ Metre” using unequal Turkish rhythms. At the I. Innovative Concert Formats Competition (2022) he won first prize with his chamber opera ensemble with the project “Intermorphoses”.
He has won further prizes at competitions in Germany, Italy, Georgia, Bulgaria, Morocco and Turkey. His concerts and compositions have been broadcast on countless national and private radio stations. Since the age of 15, he has been a regular contributor to Andante Music Magazine, the largest classical music magazine in Turkey. Part of “loehr-kollektiv”, four students from Löhrstraße in Trossingen that combine their unique specialized fields of knowledge to collaborate on different projects (like Mild Inconveniences and Inner Decision) since 2024.
Emre Nurbeyler can speak German, English and Turkish fluently.
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