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The Turkish violinist and violist, Atilla Aldemir, studied music at the State Conservatory of Istanbul''s Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. On completing his course there in 1994, he moved to Germany to perfect his technique with Professor Lukas David at the Detmold University of Music and, from 1999, with Professor Mintcho Mintchev at the Folkwang University in Essen, where he completed his concert diploma with distinction in 2002. He also received valuable advice and encouragement from Barbara Górzyńska and Matthias Maurer.
Atilla Aldemir has received numerous awards and prizes, starting with the GWK Young Artist Award of the Society for the Promotion of Cultural Work in Westphalia (GWK) in 1998. In 2000 he won the first prize in the Istanbul Violin Competition and two years later received the Folkwang Prize. In 2005 he was a prizewinner at the 8. Int. Vaclav Huml Violin Competition in Zagreb and in 2006 won a special prize at the 25. Int. Rodolfo Lipizer Awards, when he was commended for his “passion for music” and “strong artistic temperament”. In 2007 he won the second prize for violin at the 14th Int. Johannes Brahms Competition, when he also took away two special prizes. The following year he won the third prize for viola in the same competition as well as the prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work. He was awarded the prestigious National Donizetti Music Awards as 'The Best Turkish String Player of the Year 2011'.
Concert tours have taken Atilla Aldemir to numerous European countries as well as to the USA, Israel and Egypt. Among the concert halls where he has appeared are the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Vienna Musikverein, Dresden State Opera and Leipzig Gewandhaus. As a soloist he has also performed with the Camerata Salzburg, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Zagreb Philharmonic, Berlin Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Borusan Philharmonic, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra and all the State Symphony Orchestras in Turkey. Among the conductors with whom he has worked as a soloist are Iván Fischer, Kristjan Järvi, Lawrence Foster, Alexander Rahbari and Sascha Goetzel. His chamber music partners include not only Itamar Golan but also Fazil Say, Polina Leschenko and Jeremy Menuhin.
Since April 2017 Atilla Aldemir has been the principal violist with the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig. He plays a Peregrino di Zanetto viola from 1560 that is on loan to him and also a violin by J.B. Vuillaume violin from the year 1840, which was kindly financed for him by the Circle of Internationally Operating Turkish Businessmen. He currently lives in Leipzig, Germany. |
