Eren Sualp

47. International Guitar Competition “Michele Pittaluga” first prize winner Eren Sualp was born in 1987 in Ankara. He began playing classical guitar in 1996. In the same year he took private lessons from the international guitar virtuoso Ahmet Kanneci.

Dating from 1998, he participated in the master classes offered by the world famous virtuosos such as Alirio Diaz, Alvaro Pierri, Jorge Cardoso, Tillman Hoppstock, Jozef Zsapka, Carlo Marchione and many more in various guitar festivals.

In July 1999 he won the first prize at the International Guitar Competition in Orleans, France and won the third prize in October 2000 at III. Antonio Lauro Classical Guitar Competition in Ankara. In June 2002, at Amasya Guitar Festival he earned a scholarship to attend to the International Guitar Competition in Orleans, France, where he was awarded the first prize in July 2002. In November 2011 he won the second prize at the Andres Segovia International Guitar Competition in Linares, Spain. In June 2014 he was awarded second prize at the Hubert Kappel Guitar Competition in Koblenz, Germany. In September 2014 he won the first prize in 47. Michele Pittaluga Guitar Competition in Alessandria, Italy and became the first Turkish guitar player to achieve any award in this competition. He was also awarded many more prizes in Turkey and Europe.

In 2005, he graduated from both the Part-time Guitar Department of Hacettepe University State Conservatory and Özel Büyük High School.

In 2006, he decided to collect his studies of each year in a CD. He has released five so far. Latest of them which is called “Latin & Jazz Impressions” can be found on some online music shops like “Amazon” and “Itunes”.

His repertoire includes J. Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez, H. Villa-Lobos – Guitar Concerto, M.Giuliani – Concerto No.1 and many more guitar concertos.

Eren Süalp, who has performed guitar recitals in various places across the world graduated from the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Guitar Art Department Bachelor Degree in 2009 and Master’s Degree in 2014.

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