Biografie
Nilüfer Yas was born in 1999 in Istanbul. She started her university education Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul State Conservatory and completed her Associate- Bachelor degree in 2020 and graduated with a score of 3.81 (out of 4.00 ) . In 2020 April, she got accepted to Zürcher Hochschule der Künste . As of 2023, She completed her University education in Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, in the class of Prof. Till Fellner, and graduated with 5.25/6.00 diploma score. She continues her education as a Master Music Pedagogy /Klassik/ Klavier student in the class of Prof. Eckart Heiligers. During her studies, she also worked with Chris Wiesendanger in Jazz piano as a nebenfach. In her chamber music education she was studying with Prof. Louise Pellerin, Arpi Mrktchyan, Prof.Till Fellner, and Glen Borling.
MUSICAL CAREER
Nilüfer Yas started her music career with the Barbaros Lions Club- Outstanding Achievement scholarship that she won in 2012-2013, when she was 12 years old. In 2016, she won 2nd prize in the Young Talents International Music
Competition and the 1st prize in the Val tidone music contest held in Italy, and was
deemed worthy to give a gala concert in Italy with the selection of the jury.
Between 2020-2021, she passed the exams of Turkish Education Foundation as part of the "Outstanding Achievement Art Scholarship”. She was one of three people and the only pianist who won this scholarship in 2020.
Among the countries where she gave concerts are the US state of Boston (Berkeley School of Music), and the state of Phoenix in the US, Italy-Brescia, Switzerland-Zürich, Bulgaria-Varna and different provinces of Turkey. She attended
the masterclasses of Prof. Vincenzo Balzani, Prof. Ayami
Ikeba, Prof. Catherine Vickers, Prof. Alfredo Pearl and Prof. Wolfram Schmidt-
Leonardy and had a chance to do lessons with Prof. Konstantin Lifschitz and Prof. Hiroko Sakagami.