Turkish pianist Korkmaz Can Sağlam has been praised for the “maturity of his interpretations and the seeming effortlessness with which they’re realized” (Textura). He is the Grand Prize winner of the 2021–2022 Vendome Prize for Piano, where he also received the CD Recording Prize and the Audience Prize. His debut studio album, Solace—featuring works by Handel, Rachmaninoff, and Oğuz, was released by the Sono Luminus label in March 2024.

Can Sağlam has performed in major concert halls including Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Kioi Hall in Tokyo, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, and Melbourne Recital Centre, with additional appearances throughout France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Turkey, the United States, and Australia. He is also a prizewinner of the Sydney International Piano Competition and the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. Since 2018, he has been supported by Young Musicians on World Stages (YMWS), led by Güher and Süher Pekinel.

As a soloist, he has appeared with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New Manhattan Sinfonietta, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Izmir State Symphony Orchestra, and Muğla Municipality Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists including Stephen Tavani, Aaron Boyd, Christopher Adkins, Andrew Haveron, and Keiko Urushihara. Other highlights include performances at the Sydney Festival, Bellapais Music Festival, Mannes Summer Piano Festival, and a recital tour in Australia.

Born in 1999 in Ankara, Can Sağlam began his musical education at the age of seven with Gamze Kırtıl at Bilkent University’s Music and Ballet Primary School. He later studied with Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and earned his Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he was a recipient of the Ahmet Ertegün Memorial Scholarship and a two-time recipient of the Susan W. Rose Piano Fellowship. He recently completed a Master of Music degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music and is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the SMU Meadows School of the Arts under the direction of Maestro Babayan.