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Dalkiliç was born in Ankara. At the age of 8, she started
her piano education with Prof. Güherdal Karamanoglu. In 1989,
she started preparatory school in Bilkent University Faculty of
Music and Performing Arts and studied with Prof. Ersin Onay. She
graduated from the Music Department in 1996 with first rank in the
Faculty of Music and Performing Arts.
Dalkiliç continued her master's studies
with Prof. Ersin Onay, mostly working on Ahmed
Adnan Saygun's
piano compositions. She realized the premier performance of Saygun's
last work Op. 76 Piano Sonata and recorded a CD (under BMP label)
also including his other masterpieces. She completed her Master
Degree in 1999 and Proficiency in Art degree in 2003.
Besides her recitals and chamber music concerts
in her native country and abroad (Bulgaria, England, Egypt,
Ethiopia,France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Kenya, Northern Cyprus,
Poland, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, Tunisia and Ukraine)
she gave concerts with well known Turkish and foreign orchestras.
Some of the significant festivals that she has participated are
34th Sofia International Music Festival, Cartage Music Festival
(Tunisia, 2002), 18th and 22nd Ankara International Music Festival,
5th Antalya Piano Festival and 9th International Bellapais Music
Festival (Northern Cyprus).
In March 2002, she performed Bach concertos
with worldwide great masters of piano who are Turkish State Artists,
Idil Biret and Aysegül Sarica.
Her CD (BMP label) of the Piano Concerto No.1
by A. Adnan Saygun recorded from her concert accompanied by Bilkent
Symphony Orchestra on the occasion of "Contemporary Turkish
Composers Year" in February 2000, has specifically gained
great admiration.
Dalkilic's recent album, "Country Colors"
by the Turkish composer Muammer Sun which
consists of four books for piano, has been released out on BMP
and KALAN label.
In October 2004 for the CD sponsored by
Central Bank of Republic of Turkey on the occasion of Turkish
composer Cemal Reşit Rey's centennial, she recorded his piano
concerto "Variations on an Istanbul Song" with Bursa State Symphony
Orchestra.
Besides her concerts and recording activities,
Dalkiliç, who became associated professor in March 2006,
is a piano professor at Bilkent University, Faculty of Music
and Performing Arts, Ankara,Turkey.
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