Tarik Kaan Alkan

Tarik Kaan Alkan is a first-year piano student at The Juilliard School. He started playing the piano at the age of four and attended the Music Conservatory in Istanbul at the age of 10. He has won first prize in many international competitions in Turkey, Spain, and Italy. At the age of 14, he went to study at the Musica Mundi School under the guidance of Hagit Hassid Kerbel and Jacques Rouvier. He was also very interested in composing, and has written many works since he began playing, such as preludes and piano sonatas.