Nilüfer Sude Güçlü

Nilüfer Sude Güçlü was born in Ankara in 2000. In 2011, she was admitted to Bilkent University Music Preparatory Primary School with a scholarship in violin major, where she enjoyed her violin education in the class of Adilhoca Azizov from 2011-2018 and participated in various concerts of Bilkent Youth Symphony Orchestra, Türksoy Chamber Orchestra and Ankara Youth Symphony Orchestra.
She participated in the Bilkent Violin Days in 2015 and 2016 and the Burdur 4th Young Talents Classical Music Festival in 2015, before winning the second prize in category C at the 10th International Grumiaux Violin Competition in Belgium in March 2017 and participating in the Keshet Eilon Summer Course in Israel on a scholarship in July 2017. She was then invited by Prof. Shmuel Ashkenasi to the Curtis Institute of Music in the USA, where she had the opportunity to work with him.
In 2018, she performed the 5th Violin Concerto in A major by W.A. Mozart as a soloist with the Bilkent Youth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Işın Metin and participated in the 8th International Violin Festival "Young Master" in Lindau, Germany. In the same year, she graduated from Bilkent University High School of Music and Performing Arts, after which she was eligible to complete her undergraduate studies at Germany's leading music universities such as Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and Berlin University of the Arts.
In 2019, she had the opportunity to perform on stage with conductor Gürer Aykal and pianist Gülsin Onay at the Stars Ensemble Project concert, in which she was invited to participate. She also benefited from the "Women Stars of Tomorrow" support fund organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), as part of which she performed at a concert in the Albert Lange Hall of Boğaziçi University at the Istanbul Music Festival. In summer 2019, she attended the Cagliari Music Academy in Italy.
In 2020, she was awarded the Special Jury Prize (Outstanding Achievement) for her success at the 2nd Vienna International Music Competition and received the first prize at the Violin-Viola-Cello Competition organized by the Online Classical Music Academy.
Güçlü has actively participated in the masterclasses of Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Rosa Fain, Vadim Gluzman, Mark Gothoni, Guy Braunstein, Itamar Golan, Alexander Markov, Igor Tkatchouk, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Lutsia Ibragimova, Edua Zadory and Mincho Minchev, completed an internship with both the NDR Radiophilharmonie and the Bochum Symphony Orchestra in 2023 and has been an academy member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2024.
Nilüfer Sude Güçlü plays on a Nicolaus Amatus violin from 1680, which is made available to her by the Niedersachsen Stiftung and the Hausmann family, and is currently continuing her basic studies at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media in the violin class of Prof. Krzysztof Wegrzyn. For orchestral works, she is taught by Kathrin Rabus, the former concertmaster of the NDR Radiophilharmonie Orchestra.