Flute with YALIN Y.

Flutist Yalın Yavuz born in Bursa, Turkey in 1989. With his music teacher’s exploration of the ability into music at the beginner school, he started his music career as the only musician in his entire family when he was 9 years old at Uludag University State Conservatory in Flute Performance. After his graduation from high school in 2007, he transferred to Dokuz Eylül University State Conservatory in Izmir for his bachelor’s degree in Flute Performance. He had numerous solo and orchestral concerts and was teaching as a flute instructor at TOBAV (Turkey Opera & Ballet Foundation-Izmir) while he was studying at the university. He took auditions for Berklee College of Music on his last semester at the university and he had chance to study Flute Performance with half scholarship at Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA. After his 2nd year at Berklee, he raised his scholarship to full while he was having solo and orchestral concerts. He had a chance to play with Berklee College of Music Symphonic Winds Orchestra, Dream Theater and Silent Film Orchestra while he was working at Berklee Film Scoring Department as a flute player. He also had a chance to perform at community care centers around Boston when he was on his last year at Berklee. After his graduation, he accepted to study Master of Music at Longy School of Music of Bard College on scholarship. He is currently studying in GPD (Graduate Performance Diploma) with Sergio Pallottelli at Longy School of Music while he is working as a Teaching Assistant at Longy’s El Sistema Side by Side program.