Seniz Duru Art Collective

Pianist Şeniz Duru (1974) was born in Turkey. She studied piano from 1985 to 1996 with Secil Akdil, among others, at the Dokuz Eylül University State Conservatoire in Izmir, where she graduated with a master’s degree. She then took master classes with Zöhrab Adıgüzelzade, Martin Berkofsky and Edna Golandsky, among others. She obtained her DMA degree in 2001. Şeniz played many solo recitals and participated in numerous concerts in England, Germany, Russia, Italy, Portugal and, of course, Turkey. She co-founded the Aegean Piano Trio, performing world premieres of compositions by several contemporary Turkish composers in addition to performing the well-known repertoire. In 2012, she took courses in Historical Performance Practice and Harpsichord as a visiting scholar with Peter Seymour and Catherine Hollingworth at the Faculty of Music at the University of York. In 2014, she attended a summer symposium on the Taubman Approach held by the Golandsky Institute at Princeton University.