Seda Röder

Repertoire:
Couperin to Stockhausen and music by selected living composers.

Table of Contents:
1) Education and Academic Experience
2) Scholarships and Awards
3) Masterclasses
4) Teaching experience
5) Miscellanea
6) Scholarly Theses, Presentations, and Papers
7) Languages

Education and Academic Experience

2008 – 2010 Piano Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2007 – Fellow and Teaching Assistant at the Harvard University Music Department. Research on Piano Music in Vienna at the Time of Alban Berg’s Op. 1.
2006 – 2007 University of Music and Performing Arts, Munich. (Postdoctoral Studies with Gerhard Oppitz).
2001 – 2006 University Mozarteum, Salzburg. (BA and DMA studies with Rolf Plagge)
1997 – 2001 Mimar Sinan University – State Conservatory, Istanbul. (BA)

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Scholarships and Awards

2009 ISGYO Grant for CD production of the “Listening to Istanbul” Project.
2006 Alumni Foundation of the Austrian St. Georg-Kolleg, Istanbul. Yearlong merit-based scholarship for attending the postdoctoral program with Gerhard Oppitz at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Munich.
2006 Richard-Wagner-Association Munich. Fellowship for visiting the International Wagner Festival at Bayreuth.
2005 International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum, Salzburg. Merit-based scholarship for attending a masterclass with Karlheinz Kämmerling.
2001 and 2005 Alumni Foundation of the Austrian St. Georg-Kolleg, Istanbul. Merit-based full scholarship for attending the “Bakkalaureat and Magister” programs with Rolf Plagge at the University Mozarteum, Salzburg.
2003 and 2004 University Mozarteum, Salzburg. Merit-based scholarship for extraordinary artistic achievements.
2002 Austrian Ministry of Education. Yearlong artist’ s scholarship for extraordinary artistic achievements.
2001 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Fellowship for attending a German language course at the University of Regensburg.
2000 Second Prize in the National Chamber Music Competition, Çorum.
1993 First Prize in the Competition of Young Talents of Çukurova State Philharmonic Orchestra, Adana.

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Masterclasses

• András Schiff. University Mozarteum. Salzburg, 2006
• Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. Bavarian Academy of Music. Schloss Alteglofsheim; International Summer Academy of Mozarteum. Salzburg, 2005.
• Christoph Lieske. International Summer Academy of Mozarteum. Salzburg, 2001.
• Jacob Lateiner. International Summer Academy of Mozarteum. Salzburg, 2001.

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Teaching experience

• Harvard University: Graduate seminar “Listening to the Music of Our Time”.
• Harvard University: Teaching Assistant for “Mozart’s Piano Sonatas” (taught with Robert Levin).
• Harvard University: Teaching Assistant for survey course on music history from 5th century to the present (taught with Sean Gallagher)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): Piano Instructor.
• The International Foundation for the Promotion of Culture and Civilization in Munich (Internationale Stiftung zu Förderung von Kultur und Zivilisation): Piano Instructor.

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Miscellanea

Early Music

• Basso continuo realization.
• 18th century ornamentation and fortepiano tunings.
• Special coursework in Neumatic Notations in the Middle Ages.

Accompanying
Performes in various chamber music settings in Europe and the US.

Conducting
Visited Bruno Weil’s conducting class (University of Music and Performing Arts, Munich). Studied Choral and Ensemble Conducting with Herbert Böck (University Mozarteum, Salzburg).

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Scholarly Theses, Presentations, and Papers

• Lecture-performance series: German Contemporary Piano Music.

• Lecture-performance series: Viennese Piano Music from the Turn of the Century; Alban Berg and his Contemporaries

• Lecture-performance: Keyboard Music in Salzburg during the Time of Mozart at the Museum Carolino Augusteum. Salzburg, 2006.

• DMA thesis on: Der “Janitscharenzug.” Hammerklaviere des 19. Jahrhunderts. (The „Janisarrystop.“ Fortepianos of the 19th Century) at the University Mozarteum, 2006.

• Presentation on Kunst und Krieg. Kulturgeschichtlicher Diskurs vom 17. bis 21. Jahrhundert. (Art and War. Cultural and Historical Discourses from the 17th to the 21th Centuries) at the University Mozarteum, 2005.

• Presentation on Musik und Malerei: Watteau, Debussy und Poulenc. (Music and Painting: Watteau, Debussy, and Poulenc) at the University Mozarteum, 2004.

• Diploma thesis on the Analysis of 20th Century Music: Analytische Aspekte zur „Kantate L‘Homme Armé“ nach Texten von Ingeborg Bachmann und Hilde Domin von Ernst Ludwig Leitner. (Analytic Aspects on the Cantata L´homme Armé by Ernst Ludwig Leitner based on texts by Ingeborg Bachmann and Hilde Domin) at the University Mozarteum, 2004.

• Paper and presentation on Ingeborg Bachmann Vertonungen: Kantate L‘Homme Armé von Ernst Ludwig Leitner. (Musical Settings of texts by Ingeborg Bachmann: Cantata L´homme Armé by Ernst Ludwig Leitner) at the University Mozarteum, 2003.

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Languages

• Turkish (native speaker)
• German (excellent)
• English (fluent)
• French (beginner)

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