ADE DUO
BIO
ADE DUO is a collaboration between Kosovan pianist-Adea Badivuku and Turkish violist-Deniz Caglarcan. ADEDUO’s performances combine classical, pop, and jazz music. We play music, enjoy music, and share music with music lovers.
Deniz Çağlarcan is a Los Angeles-based composer, violist, conductor and transdisciplinery artist initially from Istanbul, Turkey. He investigates the sonic quality of "electronic music" by any means and realizes this idealized environment as a model for his musical language. Çağlarcan's works explore the interaction among acoustic instruments, electronic sounds, visuals, and other art disciplines within their morphological attributes. Besides, he is intrigued to create an environment by utilizing various immersive audio techniques as well as visuals and spatial elements that surround the audience. He performs interdisciplinary works collaborating with painters, media artists, computer graphics developers, and machine learning engineers.His works include solo instrumental pieces, chamber music, large ensembles, tape/electroacoustic works, live-electronic, mixed works, audio/visual compositions, site-specific sound installations, arrangements as well as film and video games scores. Besides his composition career as a violist, he performs in solo concerts, chamber music, new music ensembles, and popular music. He is also co-founder of the ADE Duo ensemble. He studied orchestral conducting for over eight years, and the lastest at Central Michigan University, he continued very in-depth study with José-Luis Maúrtua. He holds degrees in Master of Music in Viola Performance from Central Michigan University and a Master of Arts in Composition from Bilkent University.Çağlarcan is currently a Ph.D. student in Composition studying with João Pedro Oliveira and Master of Science in Media Arts and Technology with Curtis Roads at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has studied with notable composers and performers; Mark Andre, Beat Furrer, Annette Vande Gorne, Tolga Yayalar, Bruno Mantovani, Ken Ueno, Pierluigi Billone, Clara Iannotta, Alberto Posadas, Isabel Mundry, Ulrich Kreppein, Laura San Martin, Jay C. Batzner, Alicia Valoti, Sheila Browne, Scott Woolweaver, Yuri Gandelsman, Tatjana Masurenko, Walter Küssner, Hartmut Rohde, Alexander Zemtsov, Ulrich Mertin, Christine Ruthledge.
Adea Badivuku is an artist from Kosovo who plays piano for more than 15 years. She enjoys different fields of arts including painting and singing from young ages. She puts her effort into investigating the diverse colors of the piano. She enjoys performing contemporary music while sharing experience with interdisciplinary colleagues. She is seeking and thrilled by playing piano/midi keyboard with tape music regarding the search of timbral sound quality.Adea Badivuku was born in 1995 in Vushtrri, Kosovo, in a family with a classical music background. In 2003, she started to study piano at the “Prenk Jakova” music school in Prishtina. After finishing her primary and high school in “Prenk Jakova” she continued her piano studies at the University of Prishtina class of prof. Lejla Pula. During her studies, Adea has participated in numerous piano competitions, masterclasses, workshops, and music festivals. Besides music, she was the winner of the first prize twice in painting competitions in Kosovo and also a singing competition. After her graduation in piano performing bachelor, she got accepted at Central Michigan University as a graduate assistant in master's degree. She graduated from Central Michigan University with studying Dr. Alexandra Mascolo David and she got accepted from the University of Nevada, Reno with a full scholarship as a piano DMA student with a graduate research assistant position.
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