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Turkish pianist Korkmaz Can Sağlam is the Grand Prize winner of the 2021-2022 Vendome Prize for Piano, where he also won the CD Recording Prize and the Audience Prize. 

Can Sağlam has performed in concert halls such as the Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Verbrugghen Hall in Sydney among other venues in France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Turkey, United States and Australia. His recent achievements include prizes at the Sydney International Piano Competition and the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition.

Born in 1999 in Ankara, he began his musical education with Gamze Kırtıl at the Bilkent University’s Music and Ballet Primary School at the age of seven. After studying with Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music, he received his bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he was a recipient of the Ahmet Ertegün Memorial Scholarship and the Susan W. Rose Piano Fellowship twice. He recently completed a Master of Music degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

In 2018, he was accepted as a scholar of “Young Musicians on World Stages” (YMWS), led by Güher-Süher Pekinel. During his studies, he has had the chance to work with musicians such as Jacques Rouvier, Pavel Gililov, Boris Berman, Ilya Itin, Michel Beroff, Jean-Francois Heisser and Emanuel Ax. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at SMU Meadows School of the Arts under the direction of Maestro Babayan.

His first studio album, featuring works by Handel, Rachmaninoff and Oğuz was released by the Sono Luminus label in March 2024.