Tolga Bilgin

Tolga Bilgin, one of Turkey’s esteemed trumpet players in the fields of jazz and classical music, began his musical studies in 2002 and quickly built a career filled with success. He was invited to the “Seminari Senesi di Musica Jazz” program in Siena and participated in Juilliard’s mastery program. He was also awarded the jury’s special prize at the Premio Abbado competition held at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.

He has performed major classical music pieces with major orchestras such as the Dokuz Eylül University Orchestra, the Concerto Barocco Orchestra, the Izmir State Opera and Ballet Chamber Orchestra, and the Yaşar University Chamber Orchestra. In addition to classical music, he has also participated in jazz projects, performing with artists such as Fatih Erkoç and İmer Demirer, and sharing the stage with Randy Brecker, Furio Di Castri, Mauro Battisti, Stefano Risso, Eric Reed, Giampaolo Casati, Flavio Boltro, Emanuele Cisi, Nanny Assis, Andrei Kondakov, and Bela Szakcsi Lakatos.