Fusun Koksal

Upcoming Performances April 2009, 5 miniatures for Marimba, N.E.O.N. festival, Las Vegas. April 18th 2008 "Nocturnal" for flute, violin, violoncello, piano, ENSEMBLE CALLIOPEE Prades, France. May 28th 2008 " Deux Visions Pour Sextuor" eightblackbird, Ganz Hall Chicago. July 5th " Deux Visions Pour Sextuor", INTERNATIONAL ENSEMBLE MODERN ACADEMY, Herrenhaus Edenkoben, Germany. The concert will be recorded for Sudwestrundfunk. August 1st "String Quartet No.1", PENDERECKI STRING QUARTET, Toronto Summer Music Festival,Canada.

Etude No 1: Rounds and Etude No 3: Cascades, have been selected as winners of the MassChap Xylophone Etude Competition. New commission from University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble.Selected for Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation and Herrenhaus Edenkoben International master course and workshop for conductors and composers in co-operation with the International Ensemble Modern Academy, Frankfurt .Nominated for 3rd International Festival Pablo Casals Composition Competition, France. TROISIEME PRIX 6ème Concours International de Composition Henri Dutilleux, France.SCI/ASCAP Student composition commission, regional award, 2008. SCI/ASCAP Student composition commission, regional award, 2007& 2006.

Fusun Koksal was born in Turkey. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in theory & composition from Bilkent University Faculty of Music and Performing Arts studying with Bujor Hoinic, she graduated from “Hochschule fur Musik Koln” where she studied composition with, Prof. Krzysztof Meyer. Koksal has won the second prize at “III. Internartional Deutsche-Polnische Kompositions Wettbewerb”, Cologne (1998),III Prize at 6ème Concours International de Composition Henri Dutilleux (2008), and she was finalist in, 2nd International Composer's Competition, Reggello, Italy, (2005). She won one of the regional awards of SCI/ Ascap student composition commission consequently from 2006 to 2008. She was recently commissioned by “YOUrope Together” Project, organized by Philharmonie Essen. Her music has been programmed at festivals such as “Young Composers in New Music”, Detmold, “Turkkfest“, London,Toronto Summer Music Festival, Toronto, Forum Neuer Musik, Cologne, June in Buffalo Festival, and has been performed several times in Europe. Her “Vier Stücke für Streichquartett” has been published by Edition Dohr, Germany. In January 2003 she has been invited for a sabbatical study at the “Sonja Gaze Foundation”, Montreux, Switzerland. Her musichas been performed by prominent ensembles such as "Arditti String Quartet" ( June 2007), Pacifica Quartet ( May 2007), Eight Blackbird ( May 2006), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s 10:10 Ensemble, Ensemble Fire-Wire, Dafo Quartet, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra(1996), Orchestre Nationale de Lorraine ( 2008, Centre Acanthes) and her music is broadcasted by Deutschlandfunk in April 2007. After serving three years as Chair of Composition studies at Bilkent University, Faculty of Music and performing Arts, Ankara, she moved to Chicago. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at the University of Chicago, studying with Prof. Marta Ptaszynska and Prof. Shulamit Ran, recipient of "Century Fellowship", "Arts Planning Council Summer Fellowship Award", "Lowell. C. Wadmond Award", University of Chicago, Humanities Travel Grandt from University of Chicago, a bursary from Centre Acanthes to attend composers workshop, a bursary from Toronto Summer Music Festival. Performances in 2007-2008 -March 2007, “Around Circles “ , Benjamin Reissenberger, Forum Neuer Musik, Deutschlandfunk , Cologne, Germany. -April 2007 “ Around Circles” Andrea Diorio, Zhou B. Art Center Chicago. -May 2007, “String Quartet No.1”, Pacifica Quartet, The University of Chicago. -June 2007 “ String Quartet No.1” Arditti Quartet, June in Buffalo Festival. -Oct. 2007, New Orchestra piece, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, The University of Chicago--reading. -Nov. 2007, "Around Circles", Ensemble Fire-Wire, Kara bancks. -March 2008, "String quartet No.1" Saint-Pierre -des-Courps, members of "orchestre Symphonique Region-Centre Tours, France. May 2008 ,New work for NME, University of Chicago. May 2008, "String Quartet No.1", Pacifica Quartet, Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall. May 2008, "Study I " U of C computer Music studio concert".