I currently live in Hartford, CT.
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I was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1987 on a very stormy day, and yet, my life is contrarily very calm and peaceful. I'm a musician. I play the piano, and I (have to) spend a lot of hours practicing piano every day. I like meeting new people, seeing new places and faces.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm a surfer simply because I travel a lot. I have to travel a lot for concerts, competitions, etc. Though empty hotel rooms may be good for concentration, sometimes I'm totally not in the mood for that, for I would like to chill out and be less nervous for my performances. For this, the only way is meeting new friends.

Interests

Ethnic Music, Folk Music, Turkish Music, Pedagogy, Music for Prepared Piano, Chamber Music, Opera, Tuning Piano, Martial Arts, Playing video games, Playing MS-DOS games, Smoking hookah, Figure skating, Chitchat, Bowling, Sailing

• arts
• concerts
• video games
• traveling
• music
• folk music
• piano
• opera
• sailing
• martial arts
• bowling

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC:
A. A. Saygun - String Quartet No. 1, Symphony No. 2 (Finale movement),
F. Tüzün - Çeşmebaşı, Esintiler,
C. R. Rey - Enstantaneler,
R. Schumann's Concerto for piano and orchestra,
S. Rachmaninoff's all piano concertos (especially first and fourth ones),
Chopin - Piano Concertos,
A. Khachaturian - Concerto for piano and orchestra, Spartacus,
D. Schostakovich - Piano Concertos, Cello Concertos, Symphonies No. 5, 6, 7, 11,
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No: 32, 27, 21 (Waldstein), 7 (Pathetic), Tempest, Moonlight, Symphonies No. 5, 7, 9,
Mahler - Symphony No. 1,
J. S. Bach - The Art of Fuge,
R. Wagner - Valkyr (Last Act), Tannhauser (Overture)
F. Liszt - Piano Sonata, Valley of Obermann
F. Schubert - Wandererfantasie, Lebensturme
C. Franck - Violin and Piano Sonata,
R. Schumann - Violin and Piano Sonata No. 1

MOVIES:
A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck You Sucker),
Beetle Juice,
Nightmare Before Christmas,
Pulp Fiction,
The Good the Bad and the Ugly,
2001: Space Odyssey,
Full Metal Jacket,
Shining,
Eyes Wide Shut,
Shine,
Reservoir Dogs,
Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2,
Once upon a time in the West,
Once upon a time in America,
Femme Fatale,
Artificial Intelligence,
A Fistful of dollars,
For a few Dollars more,
The Prince of Egypt,
Funny Games,
Zeitgeist,
Zeitgeist Addendum,
One Night On Earth,
Cofee & Cigarettes

BOOKS:
1984 (George Orwell),
Brave New World,
La dame aux camélias (Alexandre Dumas fils),
l’Etranger (Albert Camus),
La nausse (Jean Paul Sartre),
Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck),
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck),
Farewell to Arms (Ernst Hemingway),
Les Identites Meurtrieres (Amin Maalouf),
Elf leyle ve leyle (One Thousand and One Nights),
Fémme Fatale (Lev Nikolayeviç Tolstoy),
Yaban (Wild) (Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu),
The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde),
The Demon Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark (Carl Sagan),
The Global Village (Marshall McLuhan, Bruce Povers),
Dune (Frank Herbert),
And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Sholokhov)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have watched Venus's transit over Sun...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey, United States

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