BURCU TUNCA, Viola
She started to study viola first at Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory with Betil Başeğmezler and has been the group chef assistant for 3 years in Aurora Chamber Orchestra which is established at 1990. She had the opportunity to participate to Sevda Cenap And Music Foundation Festival. In 1993, she won the exam of Mediterranean Youth Orchestra and went on a tour while she was the Group Chef and Group Chef Assistant of the Orchestra. she graduated in 1994 with success and worked with many conductors in Presidential Symphony Orchestra. She continued her music career in USA (1995); she had been an assistant in Louisiana State University (1996-98) and Florida State University (1998-2002). During her assistantship, she had many viola and chamber music students. She had also been a tutor in the university’s summer school. During her master, she gave chamber music concerts and solo recitals and graduated in 2001. She establihed Quartet alla Turca (Strings Quartet) with Ozan Tunca; cellist who received acceptance to the postgraduate program at the same school, won a special scholarship. The group was granted with the first award in Numus Chamber Music Competition which was organized in Canada, May 2002.
Working with many orchestras including Chicago Civic and New World Symphony Orchestras, Burcu Tunca moved in Little Rock as she won the full membership and quartet violist exam of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. She gave concerts for 2 years in nearly all cities of Arkansas, with Sturges Quartet which is embodied to Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. She had also been teacher in Arkansas State University. In 2003, shewas a soloist in Bursa Region Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, she returned to Turkey and started to work as a lecturer in Eskişehir Anatolian University. She received associate professorship in January 2008. She is invited to play Hindemith Concerto by Eskişehir Municipal Symphony Orchestra for Women Day, in March 2008. Burcu Tunca gives chamber music, viola and Orchestra repertoir lectures and is a Erasmus Coordinator in Anatolian University. She is also being invited as a guest member by Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra and she continues to give masterclasses, solo and chamber music concerts within country and abroad.
She started to study viola first at Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory with Betil Başeğmezler and has been the group chef assistant for 3 years in Aurora Chamber Orchestra which is established at 1990. She had the opportunity to participate to Sevda Cenap And Music Foundation Festival. In 1993, she won the exam of Mediterranean Youth Orchestra and went on a tour while she was the Group Chef and Group Chef Assistant of the Orchestra. she graduated in 1994 with success and worked with many conductors in Presidential Symphony Orchestra. She continued her music career in USA (1995); she had been an assistant in Louisiana State University (1996-98) and Florida State University (1998-2002). During her assistantship, she had many viola and chamber music students. She had also been a tutor in the university’s summer school. During her master, she gave chamber music concerts and solo recitals and graduated in 2001. She establihed Quartet alla Turca (Strings Quartet) with Ozan Tunca; cellist who received acceptance to the postgraduate program at the same school, won a special scholarship. The group was granted with the first award in Numus Chamber Music Competition which was organized in Canada, May 2002.
Working with many orchestras including Chicago Civic and New World Symphony Orchestras, Burcu Tunca moved in Little Rock as she won the full membership and quartet violist exam of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. She gave concerts for 2 years in nearly all cities of Arkansas, with Sturges Quartet which is embodied to Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. She had also been teacher in Arkansas State University. In 2003, shewas a soloist in Bursa Region Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, she returned to Turkey and started to work as a lecturer in Eskişehir Anatolian University. She received associate professorship in January 2008. She is invited to play Hindemith Concerto by Eskişehir Municipal Symphony Orchestra for Women Day, in March 2008. Burcu Tunca gives chamber music, viola and Orchestra repertoir lectures and is a Erasmus Coordinator in Anatolian University. She is also being invited as a guest member by Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra and she continues to give masterclasses, solo and chamber music concerts within country and abroad.