Çiğdem Tunçelli was born in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1999 and received her first violin lessons at the age of five. She won numerous prizes early on, including first prize for violin at the Swiss Youth Music Competition. From 2015, she studied with Gyula Stuller at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne and completed her bachelor’s degree with the highest honours. This young violinist then studied with Eva-Christina Schönweiß at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule Berlin before moving to Raphael Oleg at the Musikhochschule Basel in autumn 2023. Çiğdem Tunçelli pursued her special interest in Baroque music at the renowned Scola Cantorum Basiliensis. In the course of her training, she also had lessons with Leonidas Kavakos, Donald Weilerstein, Schmuel Ashkenasy, Gabor Takacs-Nagy and the Ysaÿe and Aviv Quartets.
A passionate orchestral and chamber musician, Çiğdem Tunçelli is a member of several prominent youth orchestras and has performed at many international summer festivals under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding and Valery Gergiev. She was also invited to the Yellow Barn Festival in the USA in summer 2022 and 2023. Social issues are also close to Çiğdem Tunçelli’s heart, to this end she has already given numerous concerts with Musethica, whose purpose is to enable disadvantaged people and groups to enjoy concert experiences.
