Death of the Turkish violinist Ayla Erduran
The Turkish violinist Ayla Erduran, who taught at the Conservatoire de Lausanne from 1973 to 1990, has died at the age of 90, according to a statement from the Turkish Ministry of Culture.
Ayla Erduran was born in Istanbul in 1934, studied with the Hungarian virtuoso Karl Berger, was considered a child prodigy and gave one of her first public performances at the age of 11. Further training followed from 1946 at the Paris Conservatory and in the USA, where Ivan Galamian and Zino Francescatti were among her teachers. She was also mentored by David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory.
Erduran's international career has taken her through Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa. She has performed with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Berlin RIAS, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Turkish State Orchestra.
After working in Switzerland, Erduran returned to Istanbul. In addition to her status as a Turkish state artist, she received the Harriet Cohen Olga Verney Award in 1964 and the Beethoven Award of the Netherlands in 1970.
