
“Violinist Alican Süner and violist Diyang Mei triumphed in the finals of Max Rostal Competition”
- The Strad Magazine
ABOUT
Winner of Max Rostal & Postacchini Competitions and the Medaille of the Italian Presidency, violinist Alican Süner is a fast emerging international soloist and served as concertmaster with the leading orchestras of Switzerland, Germany and Turkey. Currently 1. violinist with the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich (where he also served as a 2. concertmaster in the 2022/23 season), Süner has been on the Artistic Advisory Committee of Istanbul Int’l Music Festival since 2022.

Medal of the Italian Presidency at the Postacchini Competition. Fermo/Italy 2015

"Aydın-Gün Prize" at the Istanbul Music Festival, 2022

Receiving the 1. Prize from Prof. Ulf Hölscher at Max Rostal Competition. Berlin/Germany, 2015

With Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra & Maestro Alessandro Cedrone, 2023

With Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra and Maestro Ryusuke Numajiri, 2015

With Izmir State Symphony Orchestra & Maestro Gürer Aykal, 2022

Trio Ran at Istanbul Pera Palace, 2024

Alican & I Virtuosi Italiani. Verona/Italy 2017

With Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra & Maestro İbrahim Yazıcı. Adana/Turkey 2024

"Nevid Kodallı Young-Talent Prize". Mersin/Turkey 2010

Karajan-Academy Concert with pianist Yukako Morikawa. Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic, 2017

Alican & Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra at Ankara Festival, 2018

Guest-concertmaster with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Maestro Aziz Shokhakimov. Geneva/Switzerland 2022

With Filarmonica Marchigiana & Maestro Romolo Gessi. Fermo/Italy 2015

With pianist Kemal Cem Yılmaz & clarinetist Selin Gürol. Boğaziçi Albert Long Hall, Istanbul 2015

Alican receives 1. Prize, Audience Prize and Prize of the Freunde Junger Musiker e.V. at Max Postal Competition. Berlin/Germany, 2015

Filarmonica Marchigiana & Maestro Romolo Gessi. Fermo/Italy 2015

With cellist Jamal Aliyev & pianist Can Çakmur at St. Antoine Church. Istanbul Music Festival, 2018

Guest-concertmaster with Musikkollegium Winterthur, Maestro Gábor Takács-Nagy. Switzerland 2020

"Young Talents on World Stages" Concert, Istanbul 2018

1. Prize at the Concorso Postacchini, Fermo/Italy 2015
Recording Session with Trio Ran, Tonhalle Zürich, 2023

With Izmir State Symphony Orchestra & Maestro Gürer Aykal, 2022

With Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra & Maestro Alessandro Cedrone, 2023

Alican & Karşıyaka Chamber Orchestra, Izmir/Turkey 2023

With Mersin Academic Chamber Orchestra & Maestro Münif Akalın. Istanbul 2016

Guest-concertmaster with Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra, Maestro Aziz Shokhakimov. Istanbul 2022

With Mersin State Opera & Ballet Orchestra & Maestro İbrahim Yazıcı, 2015

With Leipzig Academic Chamber Orchestra & Maestro Thomas Wicklein. Gewandhaus Leipzig, Mendelssohn Saal, 2016

Recording Session with Maestro Howard Griffiths, pianist Julian Trevelyan & BBC National Symphony Orchestra of Wales, Cardiff/UK 2023

With the Presidential Symphony Orchestra of Turkey & Maestro Rengim Gökmen. Ankara 2009

Enescu Competition, Bucharest/Romania 2016

Alican & Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra at Ankara Festival, 2018