Can Cakmur

Can Çakmur (pronounced: Djahn Tchakmur) is first prize winner of the 10th HamamatsuInternational Piano Competition in 2018 and the Scottish International Piano Competitionin 2017. His recordings have earned consecutive International Classical Music Awards Awards (ICMA) —an unprecedented feat— for Young Artist of the Year (2020) and Solo Recording of the Year (2019 and 2025) alongside distinctions such as “Choc de Classica”, Diapason d’Or, Supersonic, Record Geijitsu Selection and Editor’s Choice byGramophone.

In 2023, he embarked on a recording project with BIS in which Schubert's piano works are combined with works inspired by him, to be completed by 2028. Bryce Morrison (International Piano) praised the series in these terms: “Truly great recordings of Schubert’s piano sonatas are rare… but I know of few to match Can Çakmur’s supple and penetrating confirmation of Schubert’s genius.”

Can Çakmur studied with Emre Şen, Jun Kanno, Marcella Crudeli, Diane Andersen, and Grigory Gruzman, supported by the G & S Pekinel Foundation. He has sinceappeared at Wigmore Hall in London, the Berlin Philharmonie, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, L’Arsenal, and major venues across Turkey. In 2023, he toured with the Istanbul State Symphony for the Republic’s centenary and in 2024, he inaugurated Liszt’s restored piano in Weimar. His performances have aired on BBC, Radio France, Arte, NHK, TRT, and others. As a chamber musician, he collaborates with Veriko Tchumburidze, Dorukhan Doruk, Alexandre Castro-Balbi, and Dominik Wagner. In 2022 he was appointed to a piano professorship at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance in London.

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