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Conductor
''She waves magic into the music.''
Erkan SEVİNÇ, Journalist
Standing out as one of the most remarkable conductors of her generation in Turkey, İlkim Yilmaz deeply impresses the audience with her innovative style and powerful interpretations. The talented conductor continues to make a name for herself in the music world with her unique style.
''She has the ability to identify and focus with compassion on the right challenges given through the music and so with, naturally improving her skills to better convey her personal musical ideas to the orchestra.Her character makes it pleasure to work with her which and I can clearly recognize, that İlkim is striving to achieve professional excellence in the art of conducting on the highest level.''
Sascha GOETZEL, Orkestra Şefi
Biography
An innovative and influential leader in the field of music, she has served as music director for three different youth orchestras in Turkey in the last five years and has been invited as a guest conductor for many orchestras around the country, including the Capital Chamber Orchestra, the Cinema Symphony Orchestra and the Dream Stage Symphony Orchestra. She made her opera debut with the Istanbul-based Brooklyn Chamber Opera with Pergolesi’s comic opera ‘La Serva Padrona’. She founded the Women’s Chamber Orchestra, an all-female musicians, with the aim of bringing a special repertoire for female composers to the stage, and has once again emphasized the power of women in the art world with her performances and inspired young musicians.
She who began her musical career at the age of 9 by composing songs, oratorios and pieces for children's theater without using notes, turned to studio recordings of her compositions at the age of 16, in which she took part in various instrumental performances. Although these recordings attracted much attention over time, she chose conducting as a profession upon her teacher's suggestion during her conservatory education. With dedication, she worked with Turkey's leading maestros on conducting technique, score reading and style in classical music. To learn Bel Canto singing, she practiced the alto repertoire for a year and joined the ballet class to learn the basic ballet techniques of classical ballet in practice. This process strengthened her musicality on the stage and enabled her to become a expressive conductor.

Her repertoire covers a wide range of orchestral works, ballet works and operas from the second half of the 18th century to the first half of the 20th century, including Paris and London symphonies of Haydn who remained father of the symphony, Firebird ballet of Stravinsky and 15 symphonies of Schostakovich. While her approach to different styles strengthens his artistic identity, it creates impressive moments for audience and tells a new story with each performance.
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