EDA AND

Composer, Pianist, Arranger Eda And was born in December 1988 as a child of a musician family in Izmir, Turkey. She took her first piano lessons from her mother at age 8 and had her first jazz experience with her bassist father, Kürşat And. She began her piano studies at Dokuz Eylül University Izmir State Conservatory in 2003 and graduated from its piano department in 2007. During her piano studies, she attended classical piano masterclasses and workshops of Pavel Gililov at Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg. After her classical piano studies, Eda focused on Jazz music and composing. She played at the 13th Izmir & Europe Jazz Festival, took masterclasses from Italia / Siena Jazz Academy Professors in Izmir. She took composition lessons from Mehmet Aktug between 2007-08. In 2008, she composed her first Piano concerto “Mi Re La” and performed her work with Izmir State Symphony Orchestra. After her performance she was read more...