Öğr.Gör. Doruk VİJDAN

 

 

He was born on 19.11.1995 in Seyhan district of Adana. At the age of seven, he started his primary education at Adana Petrol Ofisi Primary School. When he was just a seven-year-old boy, his musical talent was discovered by his family members and he was accepted into the children's choir of the Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra. Upon the direction of the choir conductor and Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra flute player Nevin Apaydın, he was accepted to Çukurova University State Conservatory Music and Performing Arts Department as the first in cello at the age of twelve (2007) and started working with Serdar Büyükedes. During his conservatory education, he was in many countries and had the chance to give concerts and attend masterclasses on many different platforms. 2009: He was accepted to the project of Cihat Askin and His Little Friends (CAKA) and gave a masterclass with Jiri Barta and gave concerts in Izmir Seferihisar. 2011: He won the right to be a cello member in the Doğuş Children's Symphony Orchestra for three years and gave concerts in cities such as Bodrum, Istanbul, Ankara, Konya, Kayseri, Edirne, Mersin, Izmir and Bursa within this orchestra. 2012: He was elected to the Turkish National Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and gave concerts in Bonn, Berlin, Cologne, Koblenz in Germany, Amsterdam, Den Haag in the Netherlands and Brussels in Belgium. At the Beethovenhalle Festival that took place in 2012, she took part in a big concert performed by Berlin Philharmonic Violinist Hande Küden, Seattle Symphony Orchestra cellist Efe Baltacıgil and State Artist Pianist Hüseyin Sermet, directed by Cem Mansur. Afterwards, he won two auditions named "Young Soloists" held in Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra and İzmir State Symphony Orchestra, and performed the E. Elgar Cello Concerto within these orchestras and gave two concerts. In the same year, he performed Haydn C Major Cello Concerto in Çukurova University State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. 2013: Active participation in the masterclasses of world-renowned cellists such as Johannes Moser, Jiri Barta, Natalia Gutmann, Umberto Clerici, Laszlo Fenyo, Stanimir Todorov, Roberto Trainini. He also had the chance to do one-on-one masterclasses with our country's cellists Çağ Erçağ, Emre Sayarı, Serdar Mamaç, Dilbağ Tokay, Dorukhan Doruk, Oğuzhan Kavruk and Ozan Tunca. He had the opportunity to work with famous chefs such as Cem Mansur, Renkm Gökmen, Gürer Aykal, Antonio Pirolli, İbrahim Yazıcı and Marek Pijarowski. 2015: He gave four concerts as a soloist cellist in Çukurova University State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and worked as a guest artist in Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra. 2018: Graduated from Çukurova University State Conservatory Undergraduate Department under the teaching of Serdar Büyükedes as a top student and an honor student. In September of the same year, he was accepted to the Master's program at Çukurova University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Music. Currently, Prof. He graduated from Çukurova University Social Sciences Institute Music Department under the supervision of Hakan Çuhadar and started to work as a cello lecturer at Çukurova University State Conservatory as of 2022.