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2002 born Ezo Sarici graduated this year from her Bachelor’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music with first-class honours, where she now continues her Master’s degree on a Leverhulme Scholarship with prof. Roman Simovic.

Ezo’s developing career has taken her to perform as a soloist and chamber music all over Europe in Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey and the Czech Republic to name a few. Recent summer highlights have included appearances at the Sardinia International Music Festival and Aberystwyth Music Festival performing alongside Roman Simovic, Milena Simovic, Andrey Gugnin, Uladzimir Sinkevich and Junyan Chen. The 2024/25 season features Ezo’s collaborations with the Lodestar Trio (Max Baillie, Erik Rydvall, Olav Mjelva), recitals with pianists Junyan Chen and Deniz Cengiz and concert tours with Trio Arisonto (Ezo Sarici, Annemarie Federle, Harry Rylance).

Since graduating from the Yehudi Menuhin School, Ezo has been a notable award holder at several competitions including first prize at the Royal Academy of Music Strings and Piano Duo Prize, Bromsgrove International Competition, Lipizer International Violin Competition and winners of the Tunnell Trust 2023 with her trio consisting of violin, horn and piano. As part of their prize, Trio Arisonto will tour around Scotland in November 2024. Ezo’s passion for chamber music performance has led to concerts at The Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre, Birmingham Symphony Hall, The Wales Millennium Centre, St John's Smith Square, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.

As a multi-facetted musician, she has taken on a guest principal viola role at the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast and has performed sold-out shows at many renowned jazz venues and festivals like Ronnie Scott’s and the London Jazz Festival. 2025 will highlight Ezo’s upcoming compositional projects; touring her own fusion-based compositions with Sinfonia Cymru in Wales and a premiere of her folk inflected works at the Barbican Centre in May.