The pianist Yunus Kaya develops his interpretations from the experimental and improvisational search for sound. His interpretations are always open to change: music in the making – in the field of tension between inner silence and communicative closeness to the audience.

The repertoire of the pianist and chamber musician Yunus Kaya ranges from baroque to contemporary music. As a mediator of classical Turkish music of the 20th century, Kaya surprises with compositions by, for example, Ahmed Adnan Saygun and Ulvi Cemal Erkin.

Born in Hohenems, Austria in 1986, the bilingual pianist with Turkish roots has given concerts in numerous European countries, including at the Salzburg Chamber Music Festival, the International Lake Constance Festival and the Chopin Society in Vorarlberg. He has appeared as a soloist with the Russian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra “Klassika”, the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra and the Finnish Jalas Chamber Orchestra.

Yunus Kaya studied at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory with Prof. Ferenc Bognár and at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Prof. Imre Rohmann. He graduated with honors. In 2008 he received the Bösendorfer grant; In 2012 he and his Trio Imago Salzburg received a scholarship from the organization “Live Music Now” founded by Yehudi Menuhin.

Kaya also received pioneering artistic impulses from Fazil Say, Cristina Ortiz, Rainer Schmidt and Wolfgang Redik.

Yunus Kaya has been teaching at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in Feldkirch since 2013 and regularly gives master classes in Italy, Finland and Turkey.