Meral Guneyman &Solen Dikener at Bargemusic Brooklyn. NY

Pianist Meral Guneyman (Steinway Artist) and Cellist Solen Dikener(Marshall University) will participate in the "Here and Now" Series at Bargemusic on June 9, 2012.
The duo will perform works by Justin Dello Joio, John Corigliano, Tobias Picker and other Contemporary American composers.

Meral Guneyman launches the Steinway Artist Concert Series in Germantown, Pennsylvania

Pianist Meral Guneyman will be the first featured Steinway Artist on the Steinway Artist Series at Chesnut Hill College, Germantown, Pennsylvania. Her concert on March 15, 2012 will mark the beginning of the new Series at the College. Ms. Guneyman will also give a Workshop/Master Class prior to her Concert. Chestnut Hill Colllege acquired its "All-Steinway Status in 2011.

Meral Guneyman&Solen Dikener at Marshall University

On February 9 2012, Meral Guneyman (piano) and Solen Dikener (cello) gave the West Virginia Premiere of Justin Dello Joio's "Due per Due" at Marshall University. This is a two part piece that makes severe technical demands, but rewards the effort with a dramatic first movement that has an emotional heart of significant power, and a second movement of non-stop calisthenics and high excitement.

The first movement, Elegia;to an Old Musician (in memory of composer Norman Dello Joio, Justin's father), alternates seemingly random fragments, including a recurring nagging motif, with a long, passionatemelody that stops shy of opening up, like a speaker trying to say something coherent from underneath a mask of grief. The perpetual motion second movement has cello and piano trading continual cascade of scales, often interrupted by savage, sudden chords that shock the machine but fail to stop it from running. The work is dedicated to Carter Brey, the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic.

{Notes compiled from Greg Stepanich}

Meral Guneyman with Dick Hyman April 2012-Richard Stockton State College

http://intraweb.stockton.edu/eyos/page.cfm?siteID=208&pageID=4

Sureyya Opera Recital-October 31, 2011

Tales&Dreams-by Meral Guneyman, February 2012

http://www.marshall.edu/cofa/music/?p=1297

Walden Steinway Concert

Meral Guneyman, as a Steinway Artist, was invited to play a Special spotlight Performance on the Walden Steinway at St.Joseph Hall, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia Saturday, May 21, 2011.

The concert was a celebration of the Chestnut Hill College becoming an All-Steinway School and was a collaboration between Ron Losby, President of Steinway&Sons-Americas and Carol Jean Vale,SSJ, Ph.D., President of Chestnut Hill College.

The Walden Woods Steinway Model D Art Case Concert Grand Piano is a One-of-a Kind Instrument and Work of Art created for the non-profit Walden Woods Project by the venerable Steinway&Sons and world-renowned marquetry artist Silas Kopf.