Pianist Zeynep Üçbaşaran was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She started her music studies at age four at the Istanbul Conservatory as one of the youngest ever to be admitted.

In 1987 Üçbaşaran started her studies in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where she worked with Prof. Zempléni Kornél, Prof. Katalin Nemes (pupil of Béla Bartók), Balázs Kecskés, and Prof. István Lantos.

After obtaining her Teacher and Concert Artist Diploma in 1994, she continued her studies with Prof. Dr. Tibor Szász in Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg, Germany (University of Music Freiburg) and obtained her Diploma in Aufbaustudium I.

She has her advanced graduate degrees in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles: MA (2000), Doctor of Musical Arts (2004).

Üçbaşaran has recorded the compositions of Franz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Domenico Scarlatti, Leonard Bernstein, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, and Robert Muczynski for Eroica Classical Recordings.

Since 1996 she has been living in Santa Barbara, California. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.