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PINAR BASGOZE - PAST PRESIDENT
Pınar has served on the TAAM Board as Vice President-President Elect in the 2019-2020 term, and as President in the 2021-2022 term.
A native of Ankara, Turkey, Pınar BaÅŸgöze received her B. A. and M. A. degrees in piano performance under the tutelage of Professor Banu Perk at Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory in Turkey, studied Piano Pedagogy and Performance with Professor Maria Curcio in London and piano performance with Dr. Paul Shaw at the University of Minnesota School of Music. She is a member of Duo Harmonia, formerly known as BaÅŸgöze-Pinto Piano Duo, founded in 2008 with pianist and MacPhail Faculty Susana Pinto. Their duo received the 2018 MacPhail Artist Development Grant, funded by The McKnight Foundation, to record their first CD, Harmonia. Pianist Pınar BaÅŸgöze recently received the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant FY 2020 for commissioning pieces for piano duet and narrator composed by three different composers from three different countries, based on Minnesotan, Portuguese, and Turkish folk tales. Pınar is a full-time piano faculty member at MacPhail Center for Music, married to Jon Iverson, also a member of MacPhail Piano Faculty, and skillfully managing a life filled with teaching piano, performing, and raising her family.
Pınar BaÅŸgöze is a strong advocate of introducing Turkish culture and traditions to other cultures and connecting different cultures together through music, dance and arts. She is a true believer that cultural differences should neither segregate nor discriminate, but only draw people together.
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