Melin Açikel
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Melin Acikel
Melin Acikel was born in 2004 in Berlin and began to play the bassoon at the age of six. At the age of ten, she became a preparatory student at the Hanns Eisler College of Music in Berlin under Prof. Rainer Luft, Markus Kneisel and Paul-Gregor Straka. At the same time, she was accepted into the German International Music Academy for the Promotion of the Gifted. Since 2021, Melin has been a student at the College of Music and Theater in Hannover under Prof. Bence Bogányi, as well as a participant in the pre-college program at the Zurich College of the Arts under Prof. Matthias Racz, where since 2022 she has been working on her bachelor in classical bassoon.
In 2018 and 2021, Melin won first prizes with the maximum number of points at the national competition Jugend musiziert and was awarded special prizes from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. She received the first prize at the 12° Concorso Internazionale Di Esecuzione Musicale 2020 in Venice, the second prize of all instrumental categories at the 52nd International Music Competition in Solothurn, the first prize with distinction at the Hamburg International Competition for solo bassoon in 2021, and the first prize at the Odin International Music Online Competition in 2022.
Melin Acikel was a scholarship holder at the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in 2020 as well as the International Music Academy for the Promotion of the Gifted and the Zeit Stiftung Bucerius. In 2021, she was beneficiary of a scholarship from the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation / Live Music Now Berlin. As a participant at international master classes, she has received instruction from Klaus Thunemann, Dag Jensen, Bence Bogányi, Laurent Lefèvre, Malte Refardt, Albrecht Holder, Philipp Zeller, Matthias Rácz and Sophie Dervaux.
Since 2015, Melin has gathered orchestral experience at, among others, the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg, the State Youth Orchestra and Youth Chamber Orchestra Berlin, the International Ensemble Modern Academy, the Gstaad Menuhin Baroque Academy under Prof. Maurice Steger, the Talent Music & Opera Summer Courses under Sergio Baietta in Brescia, the Thurgau Youth Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the orchestras of the Zurich College of the Arts and the German National Youth Orchestra under the direction and participation of the Berlin Philharmonic.